Example sentences for: commune

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

  • No matter where you sit down with one of his novels, you feel like you're up past bedtime, reading with a flashlight, taking a break from your humdrum life to commune with something magic and deep and eternal.

  • S. commune

  • French radical leftist; Dreyfusard, erstwhile bleeding-heart supporter of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 and exonerated in 1906; Cagoulard (from French wearer of a monk's cowl), a member of a sort of 1930s French Ku Klux Klan; and Communard, an adherent of the Commune of Paris, a group that took over the municipal government of the French capital and played a leading role in the post-revolutionary Reign of Terror.

  • Begun at the height of Napoléon III’s Second Empire, it was completed only in 1875, after the Commune.

  • Does Schoenfeld really mean to compare women writing about women who died in the camps with "a narrow cult living somewhere on a commune and insisting on a macabre sisterhood with the dead Jewish women of Europe"?


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