Sentence examples for as a commune from inspiring English sources

Some people used it as a commune.

A revolution in 1143 resulted in Rome's establishment as a commune, or self-governing city.

I thought: let's do this, as a commune, as a collective".

The new station manager, Anna Kosof, derided the old WBAI staff as "a commune.

After moving to London and working at well-known institutions such as the Tavistock Clinic, he cut loose and went on to establish Kingsley Hall as a commune where patients and psychiatrists lived together in a system that treated patients as people to be talked to and empathised with, not objects to be medicated.

One friend describes his home as a commune; another, a three-ring circus.

You can try a different lifestyle, such as living in a commune or community as some wwoof places are.

The events were part of a demonstration dubbed "Move-in Day," a plan by protesters to move into the vacant convention center and use it as a commune-like command center, according to the Web site occupyoaklandmoveinday.org.org

If you know how any place in Italy was governed in the 14th century—as a self-governing commune, as part of the Papal states or by a monarchy in the south you can predict with reasonable certainty what proportion of people there would come out to vote in a referendum tomorrow or donate blood.

Chim Phorn, 72, said that as chief of a commune in the country's north-west he had been forced to beat to death an unmarried young couple who became romantically involved.

Cubzac-les-Ponts, also referred to as Cubzac, is a commune of the Gironde department in Aquitaine, a region in southwestern France.