How to Use communal in a Sentence

communal

adjective

• The tribe lived in communal huts.
• After the sun goes down, head to the communal lakeside fire pit to make friends and roast s'mores.
  — Karen Ruffini, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023
• Three small bedrooms are placed at the front of the house, while the larger communal spaces are placed at the rear of the house.
  — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• Of course, the cost of running the AC all day in the Texas heat might be enough to make some workers want to go to a communal space.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 26 July 2023
• Bernard was born on a communal farm in upstate New York in 1984.
  — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2024
• Or the prairie’s the rare communal space, and the farmland is capitalism.
  — In Swing State, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2023
• The communal hot pot comes to the table filled with a piping hot, homemade beef bone broth.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
• Two sets of steps curve down from the pool to a huge communal lawn and secure access to the Miami Beach Boardwalk and the beach.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2024
• One of the first lessons of mansaf is how to share: The dish is served on a large circular communal platter around which up to 13 guests sit or stand.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2023
• While scaffolding covers the room, the end of the video gives visitors a preview of one of the staircases found in the communal space.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2023
• Over the years, Felder said he’s been moved to tears many times at the sing-alongs, not just for the beauty of the music but for the communal experience itself.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
• There’s the messiness and mayhem of communal meal making.
  — Kim Cook, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
• The list of virtues on the wall, the way the light poured into the canteen, the communal spaces laid out according to Montessori principles.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• The building will have a fitness center, dog park, study rooms, lounges, communal kitchens and bike storage.
  — J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2023
• In creating Purlie, Davis took two long-lasting tropes of communal Black life and twinned them in a single body.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
• But there are few residents around, the communal dining hall is riddled with bullet holes, and the kitchen is burned out.
  — Richard Engel, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
• During their stays, the chefs present a creative prix-fixe dinner menu, and prepare it at one end of the 30-foot communal table where guests dine.
  — Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2023
• Guests of Oceana can also keep active in the villa's gym or drive their golf cart — one of four — to the club's communal tennis and pickleball courts.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2024
• Before her release, her father last saw Emily the evening of Oct. 6 at dinner in the communal dining room of the kibbutz.
  — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2023
• Soup, for some, is absolutely a communal dish: something to make and share.
  — Yotam Ottolenghi, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• When day broke on Sunday, as some ravers came down from their highs and others caught up on the tragic events of the prior night, their communal spirit raged on.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2023
• But beyond vanity, the many styles signified a communal space where all could see and be seen.
  — Frank Rojas Brian Fraser, New York Times, 17 July 2023
• The practice of candombe had faded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries but found a new home in these communal living spaces.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2023
• The rise and fall of the communal creative experiment continues—at least for now.
  — WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• The North Park venue is a taproom with indoor and outdoor communal seating and benches that are dog friendly.
  — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2023
• But for the most part, the communal thirst for outrage appears to trump any potential skepticism.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2023
• There’s a different kind of communal feeling in Harlem than in NoHo.
  — Alix Strauss, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2024
• The ravens, coming from the direction of Fairbanks more than 30 miles away, were probably headed to a communal roosting site for the night.
  — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Apr. 2023
• Price at time of publish: $37 Since a lot of students use communal bathrooms and showers, these shower slippers are sure to come in handy.
  — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2023
• Your co-worker Bridget has left the communal area in disarray — again.
  — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024