How to Use communalism in a Sentence

communalism

noun
  • One based on values of communalism, kindness, and generosity.
    — Leora Smith, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Suddenly their communalism looks like little more than cruel tribalism.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The most harmless version of modern communalism is passionate fandom for a sports team, but even here Pessoa remained an outsider.
    — Benjamin Kunkel, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • When the American dream is framed as independence rather than communalism, the benefits of city life start to seem like detriments instead.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 June 2020
  • The communalism, however, would have been recognizable to anyone that ever watched two runway contestants battle to the last death drop.
    — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
  • So why has this generation of stage, television and cinematic impresarios found new resonance in this old form of communalism?
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
  • While Owen and Maclure had grand visions for a society based on communalism, kindness, education, and equality, the community’s day-to-day life was a mess.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 5 Aug. 2019
  • In short, John Locke’s ideas are part of the reason there’s limited class consciousness in this country, and why our culture emphasizes individualism over communalism.
    — Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Societal structures shaped by oppressive structural forces of casteism, classism, communalism, elitism, and patriarchy render a certain section vulnerable.
    — Anup Agarwal & Yogesh Jain, Quartz India, 29 Mar. 2020
  • The children of this era would go on to lead the next affective era in the form of the 1960s—which in many ways were a fight against this boredom, a call to reclaim the excitement of communalism, of revolution, of queerness and chaos.
    — P.e. Moskowitz september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • To stem the tide, to prevent a swift decline into communalism and authoritarianism, the outrage seen on the streets will need to translate into a robust and organized political opposition.
    — Madhav Khosla, Time, 6 Jan. 2020
  • One detects in Ferris, a former ad copywriter, a freelancer’s unanticipated nostalgia for the communalism of gossip by the copy machine and desultory Nerf ball tossing.
    — Will Blythe, New York Times, 10 May 2017
  • Murugan’s latest novel folds the violent repressions of contemporary India — the casteism and communalism — into the biography of a deeply unlucky little goat.
    — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
  • India’s courts are woefully backlogged, and rising communalism clashes – sometimes violently – with equally rising demands for individual rights.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party has injected a toxic communalism into the Indian body politic, creating the space for lynchings and other extra-judicial crimes to occur with alarming frequency.
    — Amar Diwakar, New Republic, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Between communitarianism and selfishness, between communalism and capitalism.
    — Lauren Puckett, Town & Country, 4 Apr. 2021

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