How to Use communal in a Sentence

communal

adjective

• The tribe lived in communal huts.
• The way our communal experience of the weather can feel like low-key group telepathy.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
• The rides into the nearby mountains were communal and convivial.
  — Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2022
• Residents share communal living space, including kitchen and dining areas, in a home.
  — Trevor Fraser, Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2022
• There also has to be a communal area for changing, entering and exiting that provides at least 65 cubic feet of space.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 27 June 2022
• Khalil says there is usually a big communal religious ceremony or service, which includes a prayer and a sermon.
  — Jordan Culver, USA TODAY, 7 July 2022
• Because the communal areas of the house are voluminous and plenteous, furniture and art choices needed to skew extra large.
  — Charles Curkin, ELLE Decor, 13 July 2022
• Lunches here are a family-style affair, with earthy soups from moringa leaves cooked in coconut shells, and packets of wild mushrooms wrapped in banana leaf—all served at communal tables in front of the kitchen.
  — Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 21 June 2022
• And food politics isn’t just about policy but celebrating the traditions and communal bonds cooking fosters.
  — Kelly Alexander, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2024
• Portland also offers vouchers for food – and aid organizations also cook communal African meals.
  — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2022
• Welcoming communal areas with vintage maps and Ugandan railways posters on the walls house comfy chairs and travel and conservation books and magazines to flick through.
  — Kate Lewis, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The communal spirit is different, stronger at a Springsteen show, both in the crowd and on the stage.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The lock-in bans workers from eating communal meals; they're instead forced to eat in their dorms.
  — Marco Marcelline, PCMAG, 31 Oct. 2022
• The group’s room had three bunk beds and a private bathroom, with access to a communal kitchen and living area.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
• In defense of their communal home, the group suffers a few losses.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 27 July 2024
• 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 cozy bar at Headtrip had five seats, with communal tables, board games and darts filling the narrow space.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2022
• There's a communal kitchen, roaming cats, a campground, and multiple baths and pools, plus a dry sauna and steam room.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2024
• This is because the few communal pay phones available in the prisons are installed in the common areas, just beyond the bars of the cells.
  — Gabrielle Caplan, WIRED, 6 May 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024