How to Use commune in a Sentence

commune

1 of 2 verb
  • An easy way to commune with the moon is to go outside and look at it.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Those who know this use the grounds to relax and commune with nature.
    — Byron McCauley, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2020
  • In Teahupo’o, surfing the wave is just one way to commune with it.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 July 2024
  • For the most part, though, communing with the crowds seemed to energize him.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 25 June 2012
  • Some people just want to commune with people.
    — Steve Baltin, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Teams communing with their supporters like this is a common sight there.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Now it’s being promoted to a younger crowd that still likes to commune with nature.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Want to commune with fellow readers in metro Atlanta this month?
    — Gina Webb, AJC.com, 9 Jan. 2026
  • No amount of cold water swimming or walking barefoot in the grass or communing with birds has cured me.
    — Polly Atkin august 26, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
  • People were going out to commune and be around other people.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Dan masks with closed eyes signify a turning inward to commune with the spirits.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
  • However, the actors still found a way to commune with the legendary country artists.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • We are left to commune with the inanimate, to uncover its secrets.
    — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Harkawik Barbour seems to commune with color itself.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • That openness and trust lead to communing at cookouts and social gatherings.
    — Daric L. Cottingham, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 July 2023
  • 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
  • Jesus’ example shows that our bodies are part of how we’re meant to commune with God and each other.
    — Anna Broadway, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • Public spaces to commune and experience all three abound here.
    — Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • While honoring bigger names like Foster, the festival was more of a place to commune than name-drop.
    — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Or commune with the celestial spirits yourself by taking in the night sky—far from city lights, the hotel is a sublime place to stargaze.
    — Janet O’Grady, WSJ, 28 July 2021

commune

2 of 2 noun
  • He's living in a religious commune.
  • Audiences want to feel, to commune, to dissect, to yearn.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Nostoc commune is not toxic and will not harm plants, animals or lawns.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 12 Apr. 2023
  • While a commune might evoke group meetings, rules, and chore charts, the mommune is far less rigid about who does and pays for what.
    — Kayla Levy, Curbed, 25 June 2026
  • But there may be a dark side to teaching humans how to better commune with animals.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2023
  • There was only the dead end of the commune, or the default of the corporation.
    — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 14 June 2022
  • May rose and piquant jasmine grown in the southern French commune of Grasse.
    — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • His six-day tour included visits to a school, factories, and a commune.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2022
  • One commune that gained three stars is Veyrac, located in southern France.
    — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Moss-Bachrach instead went to bars on the South Side to commune with Chicagoans.
    — Melena Ryzik, New York Times, 22 June 2023
  • 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
  • When the priest takes his stringent methods too far, the existence of the commune is called into question.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Apr. 2026
  • In the beginning, Scritti Politti was a commune as much as a band.
    — Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 15 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • So when the first children in the commune were born, factions emerged around which language the next generation should speak.
    — Big Think, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The commune was all about sharing, about selflessness, and these characters couldn’t have been more selfish.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The Old Steeple has been a bookstore, art commune and a Methodist church over the last century.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • After a traumatic encounter, two sisters commune with a local witch to banish men from their town for three hours.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Have Abruzzo’s vintners and communes done much to promote Abruzzo’s wines?
    — John Mariani, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Most communes don’t have a board of directors, a secretary or a treasurer, but Llano did.
    — André Naffis-Sahely, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 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 shop is owned by Georgia Gersh, who was born and raised north of Taos and grew up on one of the area’s former communes.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The House is a fragile little commune run by a ex-punk singer, and its main mission is to be a place where everyone is welcome.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
  • French voters returned to the polls Sunday in about 1,500 communes.
    — Arkansas Online, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The youngest daughter communes with ghosts through the television set and eventually goes missing.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Other seekers at the commune steal Anna’s clothes, cheat on their partners, and neglect their children.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
  • More to Explore Shakers also produced their own remedies on their communes.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 May 2026
  • 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

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