How to Use communist in a Sentence

communist

noun
  • He’s gone as far as to call them communists.
    — NBC news, 28 June 2026
  • He was briefly jailed, branded a communist and sent back north.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
  • And now let’s see how a communist does in New York.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • But many Poles felt that approach let communists go free—and even stay in power.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 22 July 2017
  • When the communists sent her husband to prison, Ha Luu baked bread.
    — Mrussell, oregonlive, 31 May 2023
  • With the end of the war, the Nazis faded, but the communists remained.
    — Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
  • If the gun-toting outlaws had been communists, prison would now be housing them.
    — New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
  • You could be fired from your job if your Aunt Martha was whispered to be a communist.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Players faced taunts and slurs, and were even accused of being communists.
    — ABC News, 30 June 2026
  • These are not social Democrats, these are hard-core, godless communists.
    — CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • Time stopped in Cuba after the communists took over.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Even Beard, the rom-communist doubter, finds the moment magic.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2021
  • What, are you being brainwashed by communists?
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The Ku Klux Klan spied on both the fascists and the communists.
    — John Buntin, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
  • These are not social democrats, these are hardcore godless communists.
    — CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • Mamdani is not a Communist, though he's been accused of being one.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 21 Nov. 2025
  • And then communists in Vietnam.
    — Connor Okeeffe, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Communists in the United States too.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Communists bombed buses and state buildings.
    — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The world will no longer have to bow to communist China for the resources needed to build the future.
    — Brian Mast, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • How does a man go from hating communism, to having to deal, to having to sit and be face-to-face with a communist?
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Wishing to be a good communist, Xi has tacked in the other direction.
    — Dexter Roberts, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Seven years into communist rule, the Mekong Delta was running out of food.
    — Oanh Ngo Usadi, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2018
  • His refugee extras, who fled the communists, don’t want to play Viet Cong onscreen.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 6 May 2024
  • One of his best friends is a devoted communist, and another a soldier of the South.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024
  • And in the 1930s, there were a group of young, mostly Jewish kids who were communists.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Those who fought and died on the side of the communists are depicted as heroes and martyrs for the nationalist cause.
    — Edward Miller, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2017
  • One of the surest ways to get labeled a communist in cyberspace is to merely raise the question of universal service.
    — Rob Glaser, WIRED, 1 Jan. 1995
  • The city's café culture has made a strong comeback (the communists had closed down the cafés, fearing a dissident breeding ground).
    — Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Communists are married to John Birchers, who may be, in fact, red-diaper babies, and so on.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026

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