potter's field
Example Sentences
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The Penn Museum was built on property that once adjoined the Blockley Almshouse, right between a potter’s field and Penn Medical School.
From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2022
Calvary Catholic Cemetery — made a plan: Establish a potter’s field, gather the unclaimed dead and give them a proper burial.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2021
The local council of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal group of which both are members, helped raise money for the interment and donated a marker for the potter’s field.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2021
Forget the potter’s field near the Bronx full of freshly dug graves.
From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2020
Mr. Collins caught the fever, and a few days later he joined the rest of his family members in the crowded potter’s field.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
