Example sentences for: communes

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

  • They've been living truly on the fringe, in a succession of communes and finally alone in a tiny cottage in the northern California woods, though Mary has made sure never to drop completely from sight.

  • While the new Third Repub­lic’s government under Adolphe Thiers negotiated the terms of surrender, the workers’ communes refused to give in.

  • By the end of the 13th century, with the independent-minded communes growing into full-fledged city-states, Italy was clearly not to be subjugated to the will of one ruler.

  • The backbone of the Guelfs was in communes such as Florence and Genoa.

  • Dukes, administrators, and clergy lived in towns rather than isolated castles, absorbing the hinterland into communes, forerunners of the city-states.


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