Example sentences for: commune

How can you use “commune” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Mathematicians are, after all, people who fancy that they commune with perfect Platonic objects--abstract spaces, infinite numbers, zeta functions--that are invisible to normal humans.

  • In 1927, the Communist-led forces who established the Guangzhou Commune were wiped out by the troops of Chiang Kai-shek.

  • Referring to the Castro district in San Francisco, Sun City, Florida, and a guru-inspired commune in Oregon, Frances Fitzgerald wrote that their inhabitants were all inspired by "the extraordinary notion that they could start all over again from scratch."

  • It, too, was toppled, during the 1871 Commune at the instigation of painter Gustave Courbet, who had to pay the crippling cost of having it re-erected two years later.

  • Artists still scorn it as a vulgar pastiche, and the working-class residents of the area resented its being erected as a symbol of penitence for the insurrection of the 1871 Commune — they didn’t feel penitent in the least.


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