potter's field
Example Sentences
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Four years later, she still leaves flowers at the potter’s field each Memorial Day.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2021
There is room for more than 14,000 cremains in the potter’s field, and both men say they plan to continue claiming and burying the dead until they join them in the earthly embrace of Mt.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2021
To stave off a secondary public health emergency, any bodies left unclaimed for 14 days were, for a time, being buried at a potter’s field on Hart Island in the Bronx.
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2020
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
