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• The new fitness center has communal showers in the locker rooms.From the entry communal shower
• The basketball team took a communal shower after the game.From the entry communal shower
• The communal nature of ostriches may have made these birds more amenable to life in captivity.2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine. From the entry amenable
• I wish I hadn't resisted the magnetic pull of teenageness into that roiling heart of communal feeling.2019, Sam George-Allen, Witches, page 14. From the entry teenageness
• From April onwards, however, the antireservation agitation and communal riots took place simultaneously.2016, Megha Kumar, Communalism and Sexual Violence in India: The Politics of Gender, Ethnicity and Conflict, →ISBN. From the entry antireservation
• Mirfandas can take pleasure in their communal understanding that they are “insiders.”2016, Alice E. Marwick, “You May Know Me From YouTube: (Micro)-Celebrity in Social Media”, in P. David Marshall, Sean Redmond, editors, A…. From the entry Mirfanda
• There were no showers for the players, only a communal plunge bath.2015, Neil Phillips, Doctor to the World Champions: My Autobiography, →ISBN. From the entry plunge bath
• Turns out the group was enjoying a porron, a communal drinking vessel native to Spain.2013 May 6, Kate Parham, “From Spain, a party in a porron”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2013. From the entry porron
• 'We need those charged,' said Mac as he headed off to find the communal shower block.2011, Mark Abernethy, Golden Serpent, →ISBN, page 92. From the entry Nokia
• Here are six tips to help you play successfully on the flop (the first three communal cards).2003, Lou Krieger, Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games. From the entry flop
• In suburban Kent, the owners of the Chislehurst Caves recognised their potential as communal shelters.2003, Mary Abbott, Family Affairs. From the entry rosy
• Having never experienced communal bare-bum soaking European style, I was sure I'd wandered into the men's room.1992 April, Martie Sterling, “My Last, Last Run”, in Ski. From the entry bare-bum
• The newly constructed house-communes were, in fact, modest in their communal arrangements.1979, Alena Heitlinger, Women and State Socialism, →ISBN, page 82. From the entry house-commune
• It recognizes charity and communal enterprises as voluntary versions of this same ethic.1969 March, Karl Hess, “The Death of Politics”, in Playboy. From the entry anarcho-capitalism
• We’re incapable of conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become habituated to being consumers rather than citizens.2017 December 30, Stuart Jeffries, “Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han – review”, in The Guardian. From the entry psychopolitics
• St Philip Neri had specifically intended that the Oratory should be a city-based form of communal and missionary life.2006, Judith F. Champ, William Bernard Ullathorne, 1806–1889: A Different Kind of Monk, →ISBN, page 168. From the entry oratory
• It is instructive to compare the Thersitean critique of communal identity with the narratives of an emergent English nationalism.2005, Simon Barker, Shakespeare's Problem Plays. From the entry Thersitean
• When you're eating crudité, chips or anything else that uses a communal dip, you should dip before you take a bite.2000 February 2, Harriette Cole, How to Be: A Guide to Contemporary Living for African Americans, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry crudité
• Its kind is the reusage of communal styles, especially the Romanesque and early Gothic, as modernized by the late John Flannagan.1962 October 27, Stuart Preston, “Art: A Mythical Voyage Into Cubism; Works of Campalans at Bodey Gallery”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry reusage
• The children are said to be communal, and that he is—allegedly—a wise Freedomite who knows his own father.1945, Louisa W[atson] Peat, “Drama of the Doukhobor”, in Canada: New World Power, New York, N.Y.: Robert M[edill] McBride & Co., →OCLC…. From the entry freedomite
• After that, however, the village made steady progress in establishing a system of collective agriculture and communal organization under the advisory of the SERA.2017 December 4, Daniel Mann, “Appendix 3: Impressions from Liweta and Namatuhi”, in The smell of Ujamaa is still there[:] Tanzania's Path…. From the entry advisory
• Another of our friends once walked into the communal showers to find a boy tootling on the pink oboe of another of the same age.2015, Michael Volpe, Noisy at the wrong times, page 178. From the entry pink oboe
• Association was built into the structure of communal government in the City's wardmotes and precinct meetings and in the open vestries of many suburban parishes.2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 121. From the entry wardmote
• I focus on communal descriptive problems—what I call American race talk dilemmas—rather than on all the lightheartednesses and small triumphs of daily life at Columbus.2009, Mica Pollock, Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School, →ISBN, page x. From the entry lightheartedness
• Precommercial societies at first lacked any concept of ownership at all, and when a concept of ownership did develop it was predominantly communal.2008, Gregory S. Alexander, Commodity & Propriety, page 65. From the entry precommercial
• The progenote model sees organisms as genetically communal and the community as evolving as a whole, not the individual cell lines therein.2005, Jan Sapp, Microbial Phylogeny and Evolution: Concepts and Controversies, →ISBN. From the entry progenote
• Utopian socialist communities are examined in the next chapter, many of which were influenced by the ideas of communal living seen at New Harmony.2004, Robert P. Sutton, “Introduction”, in Communal Utopias and the American Experience: Secular Communities, 1824–2000, Westport, Conn.…. From the entry utopian socialist
• A cybersynagogue must address the three traditional functions of a synagogue: a house of assembly, a house of study, and a house of communal prayer.2003, Tsvi Bisk, Moshe Dror, “The Jewish Community in Cyberspace”, in Futurizing the Jews: Alternative Futures for Meaningful Jewish…. From the entry cybersynagogue
• The communal body, wrapped with the social fabric of folkism, naturalized social relations, thus erasing any differences of class, gender, or region.2001, Thomas Lahusen, Harbin and Manchuria: Place, Space and Identity, page 200. From the entry folkism
• Munias are smaller than sparrows; they have pointed short tails, and live in flocks, building large communal nests shared by several breeding pairs.2000, Tara Gandhi, Birds and Plant Regeneration, page 76. From the entry munia
• So too, says Oakeshott, did the individual manqué, one who feared his freedom and sought to return to the comfort and order of communal life.1994, C. Fred. Alford, Group Psychology and Political Theory, Yale University Press,, →ISBN, page 156. From the entry manqué
• Maintaining a communal dirt yard was once routine for black families in the South, and it is also traditional in most West African villages.1987, Patricia Jones-Jackson, chapter 1, in When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands, Athens, Georgia: University of…. From the entry dirt yard
• I'm making an effort towards communal life in the Coloured quarters of our great metropolis, a small light in a naughty world.1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 48. From the entry boorjoy
• By dancing to “Apache” or “It's Just Begun,” any contemporary breaker is arguing that communal values are shared by anyone who has b-boyed over the last three decades.2017, Tom Perchard, editor, From Soul to Hip Hop, Routledge, →ISBN, page 517. From the entry b-boy
• The main gripe with new condominiums these days is the lack of space, and that was apparent in this three-bedder unit with its small bedrooms and communal spaces.2017 July 8, “A 3-bedder condo with space for a family of three”, in Lookbox Living. From the entry bedder
• I took the stairs down to the communal area and stood resting against a concrete pillar, watching my "brother" kick up little scraps of half-frozen turf.2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry concrete
• “The numbers just go to show — once again — that pundits and presumed communal representatives are flat-out wrong in assuming American Jews are hawkish on Iran.”2015 June 11, Karen DeYoung, “As an Iran deal nears, the lobbying, pro and con, intensifies”, in The Washington Post, archived from the…. From the entry go to show
• The chants and "churchical" beats of traditional Nyabhingi drumming played a vital role in Rastafarian Grounations, communal celebrations notable for their ital feasts, ganja smoking, and mystical theologizing.2011, Erik Davis, Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica, Portland, Or.: YETI Books, Verse Chorus Press, →ISBN, page 245. From the entry churchical
• The communal area is constantly cruisey, whether you′re slung low in a hammock or sipping your BYO stubbie in the cool, cushioned area with a frayed map in hand.2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 384. From the entry stubbie
• There’s a communal slate table where patrons can sit and drink shade-grown coffee or eat a panino stuffed with Julia Hermosa’s locally grown arugula and Sprout Creek Farm cheese.2009 June 7, Quick Bite/Bedford Hills, “A Farm Market in a Store”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022. From the entry panino

Meaning of communal

1. adjective Pertaining to a community or a commune.
2. adjective Shared by a community; public.
3. adjective Defined by religious ideas; based on religion.

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Questions about communal in a sentence

How do you use communal in a sentence?

Communal is used as an adjective. For example: “The new fitness center has communal showers in the locker rooms.”

What is a short sentence with communal?

“The basketball team took a communal shower after the game.”

What does communal mean?

Communal means pertaining to a community or a commune.