How to Use commune in a Sentence

commune

1 of 2 verb

• Hit the beach, kiss a crush, and commune with nature again!
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 2 July 2021
• An easy way to commune with the moon is to go outside and look at it.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• For the most part, though, communing with the crowds seemed to energize him.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 25 June 2012
• Those who know this use the grounds to relax and commune with nature.
  — Byron McCauley, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2020
• This is why the dreamer is calmed and relieved to silently commune with the birds.
  — Lauren Lawrence, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2020
• For the casual plant owner, that may be too high a price to commune with the leaves.
  — Wired, 25 Sep. 2019
• The church is the people (Matthew 16:18), and a safe place for Christians to commune together in faith.
  — Maxine Harrison, refinery29.com, 11 Sep. 2023
• Ben and Rey are facing off when Leia communes with her son.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
• Grief groups like yours are a true lifeline – a safe place to mourn, to commune, and to form friendships forged from tough steel.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 7 Jan. 2022
• DeLeo and the rest of STP are gearing to commune with fans who have been waiting nearly five years to see the band play live.
  — Dave Gil De Rubio, kansascity, 30 May 2018
• Grief groups like yours are a true lifeline — a safe place to mourn, to commune and to form friendships forged from tough steel.
  — Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2022
• To work with him, even just to be in the halls of his school or theater, meant communing with the highest creative genius.
  — Elinor Hitt, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
• Walking the streets and breathing in the air from the Alabama Riverfront is like communing with them.
  — Nneka M. Okona, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 June 2019
• It was believed this was a time when the veil was lifted between our world and the underworld to commune with the dead.
  — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• Both the opera and the film include a scene in which Oppenheimer is seen alone at the tower, communing with the tentacled bomb.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 July 2023
• There’s no high that can replicate the deep sense of self found while connecting and communing as people.
  — Alessandra Rincón, Billboard, 28 June 2018
• However, the actors still found a way to commune with the legendary country artists.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2022
• Now it’s being promoted to a younger crowd that still likes to commune with nature.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 30 Jan. 2023
• Thus the scene that gallery goers can enter — whether to pose for a photo or just commune with the kitchen’s occupants — is 1953.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2020
• Photo: Reid Morth If there were a place to commune with nature—and not a single human—in the Lower 48, this would be it.
  — Nina Sovich, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
• Services run the gamut, from herbal workshops to love spells to communing with spirit guides; some witches charge up to $200 an hour for their time.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
• People have such a deep bond with the landscape that there is a ubiquitous word for communing with it: friluftsliv, a.k.a.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2018
• The winsome charm of Elizabeth Ito’s City of Ghosts lies in its simple premise: to commune with haunting specters is not a scary prospect.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2022
• But the failure was the lack of opportunity to commune with my mistake, learn what was wrong, fix it.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
• Teams communing with their supporters like this is a common sight there.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
• That judges must commune with the spirits of the Founders to reach that conclusion is simply the world that Bruen has created.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
• In the absence of real-life communion with fans at her shows, Amos learned to commune with the world around her in different ways.
  — Suzy Expositostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2022
• Elders speak of how streams flow from the mountains sanctified by the prayers of ancestors who went there to commune with the spirits.
  — Deepa Bharath, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2022
• Fans and artists alike were eager to commune in one of the most magical festival settings in the country.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2022
• Most attendees travel to the stark desert for a week to express themselves with music and art, and to commune with nature.
  — Ed Komenda, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2023

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commune

2 of 2 noun

• He's living in a religious commune.
• Moss-Bachrach instead went to bars on the South Side to commune with Chicagoans.
  — Melena Ryzik, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• My guess is that the Codeine kids at Numero 20 didn’t come to commune with the past so much as slow down the present.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
• There was only the dead end of the commune, or the default of the corporation.
  — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 14 June 2022
• The first Chardonnay was from the southern part of Champagne, in the commune of Vitry-François.
  — Per and Britt Karlsson, Forbes, 30 May 2021
• The Jacuzzis were, at the turn of the 20th century, a large clan in Casarsa, a farming commune in Northern Italy.
  — Saskia Solomon, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• The Old Steeple has been a bookstore, art commune and a Methodist church over the last century.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2021
• May rose and piquant jasmine grown in the southern French commune of Grasse.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• My friends had gotten this crazy idea of having a commune in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, near Pueblo.
  — Hugh Ryan, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 June 2021
• After 10 weeks on the island, off to an Israeli commune.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 12 May 2022
• In that spirit, Susan Hornik rounds up some places to eat, drink and commune during Pride Month.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
• Dragging his luggage and two pillows down a rocky path through the woods, Oak looks determined to find his way to the commune.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
• The film pits a group of city folk against an ancient commune of Appalachian dwellers called the Foundation.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 30 May 2023
• The commune of Como is on the southern end of the eponymous lake — Italy’s third largest — and is known for its historic villas and resorts.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• In the nineteen-sixties, a choir of young folk musicians started a commune called the Group, Inc., and settled in the foothills of the Arkansas Ozarks.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 13 July 2021
• Timothy Leary had a sort of acid commune in north upstate New York, in a town called Millbrook.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022
• Alien-like blobs invading your yard?:What to know about Nostoc commune and how to prevent it What is the purpose of mulch?
  — Amanda Pérez Pintado, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
• The couple wed in an intimate ceremony at the town hall in Mazan, a small commune in the Provence region of the country.
  — Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
• There’s another script called Albion that’s about a commune in the Northeastern United States in the 1920s.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2024
• Others, like the communes of Descartes and Le Blanc, both in central France, have not reopened their public pools this summer.
  — Juliette Guéron-Gabrielle, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Are there Nephromyces species that cheat—that contain no bacteria of their own and instead mooch off the nutrients produced by the rest of the commune?
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 26 July 2022
• Three hundred people lived in a commune, and all of them were considered to be married to each other.
  — Laurie Segall, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2022
• One commune that gained three stars is Veyrac, located in southern France.
  — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2021
• Rob Gardener, the grandson who still lives as a near hermit on the grounds, turned the estate into a hippie commune during the 1970s.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022
• That moment happens when a pair of elders are led to the top of a mountain, overlooking the group of Swedes from the commune and our three American tourists.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 30 Aug. 2022
• But there may be a dark side to teaching humans how to better commune with animals.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2023
• The victims were traveling to a town in the nearby commune of Pama, close to the borders with Benin and Togo, Yameogo said in a statement.
  — Reuters, CNN, 27 May 2022
• In this sense, the field is a place of commune, where people of color come together to celebrate arrival.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2021
• His six-day tour included visits to a school, factories, and a commune.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2022
• Nostoc commune is not toxic and will not harm plants, animals or lawns.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 12 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024