potter's field
Example Sentences
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“We played softball next to the potter’s field where he was buried and we would visit him on the holidays, with flowers and prayers,” she said.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2023
Four years later, she still leaves flowers at the potter’s field each Memorial Day.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2021
The videos emerged as the coronavirus outbreak ravaged New York, and after they circulated, officials confirmed what viewers suspected: The city had begun interring unclaimed bodies of Covid-19 victims in the potter’s field.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2020
Forget the potter’s field near the Bronx full of freshly dug graves.
From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2020
The bodies of the indigent dead were carted to the potter’s field and dumped, but no gravediggers were there to bury them.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
