Sentence examples for communes are from inspiring English sources

Many communes are inspired by religious principles; monastic life is essentially communal (see monasticism).

The most populous communes are Vaduz, the administrative and commercial centre, and Schaan, the principal industrial community.

Novels about communes are very rare and this might be because the ideal of "the communal" is at loggerheads with the bias towards "the individual" in the novel.

The communes are notoriously bad at allocating costs.

How sad that London's last communes are under threat.

French communes are typically quite small; there are more than 36,500 of them.

Fourteen communes were involved in community-based control using Mesocyclops, and two untreated control communes were maintained at Tan An, Long An and in Tan Loi Tan, Ben Tre.

By contrast, Mao's disastrous "people's communes" were praised.

After the economic difficulties of 1959 61, however, the communes were reorganized.

Local organizations, such as factories, business concerns, collectives, and communes, were encouraged to establish schools.

When Mao's disastrous communes were broken up two decades ago, equal-size family farms were created.