How to Use communist in a Sentence

communist

noun

• The Ku Klux Klan spied on both the fascists and the communists.
  — John Buntin, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
• 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
• 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
• He was basically branded a communist for allowing this to happen.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Jan. 2018
• Baton-wielding police were required to break up the baying crowd of Italian exiles and French communists.
  — SI.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• World & Nation Trump calls Harris a Marxist, a communist, even a fascist.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
• Jurado was accused of being a communist during the McCarthy era.
  — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2018
• The middle daughter in a family of nine siblings, her father and brothers fought in the army alongside the Americans against the communist north.
  — Oscar Corral, miamiherald, 1 Feb. 2018
• This is why hardcore libertarians and anarcho-communists both favor it.
  — Longreads, 16 Feb. 2018
• Romania's former monarch, who was forced to abdicate by the communists in the aftermath of World War II.
  — Bernard McGhee, sacbee, 26 Dec. 2017
• So, naturally the government wanted to take down a gay group run by former communists, secretly meeting to take political action.
  — Kt Hawbaker, Chicago Reader, 12 Feb. 2018
• Korea was then rocked by a civil war between the communists in the North and the U.N.-backed forces in the South.
  — Lauretta Charlton, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• The nations of a region wracked with conflict and the long shadow of the communist ...
  — Scott Howard, National Review, 11 June 2023
• When the communists sent her husband to prison, Ha Luu baked bread.
  — Mrussell, oregonlive, 31 May 2023
• And that’s just as bad, maybe worse, than being a communist.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
• You could be fired from your job if your Aunt Martha was whispered to be a communist.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 14 Mar. 2023
• The communists were ruling the country with an iron fist.
  — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 28 June 2018
• Many of the players on the Croatian team were born in communist Yugoslavia in the 1980s.
  — Larry Wolff, WSJ, 13 July 2018
• After the end of the Cold War, Mr. Babis was among the former communists who bought up what remained of the old order.
  — New York Times, 11 Dec. 2019
• Even Beard, the rom-communist doubter, finds the moment magic.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2021
• In the film, Hughes plays Leo, a young German communist, and the titular Joan's first love.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 19 Apr. 2019
• There were never a lot of socialists or communists in the U.S., but there were more in the ’30s than ever before or since.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 17 Sep. 2019
• His refugee extras, who fled the communists, don’t want to play Viet Cong onscreen.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 6 May 2024
• The vast majority of those left – to the West, to escape the communists who were grabbing control, or to Israel, to help build the new state.
  — Larry Tye, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Seven years into communist rule, the Mekong Delta was running out of food.
  — Oanh Ngo Usadi, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2018
• One of his best friends is a devoted communist, and another a soldier of the South.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024
• If the gun-toting outlaws had been communists, prison would now be housing them.
  — New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• Also — since this was made by John Wayne in the ’60s — the message is probably also don’t be a communist.
  — Adrian Daub, Longreads, 3 Sep. 2021
• In March Mr Duda broke ranks and vetoed a bill which would allow communist-era soldiers to be stripped of rank.
  — The Economist, 21 Apr. 2018
• Kamala Harris did not give a speech at the Democratic National Convention to a sea of communists while standing in front of the hammer and sickle.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024