Sentence examples for communes like from inspiring English sources

Some communes, like Beech Hill Community in Devon, grow their own food and have come up with imaginative ways to generate electricity and dispose of waste.

Here, communes like Saint-Denis and Aubervilliers are home to some of the poorest communities around the capital with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country.

It is the richer, more assertive Rhine wines, from communes like Hochheim, Eltville, Johannisberg and Rudesheim, that are most often associated with heavier dishes.

"We lived in his building and he had a scheme to sort of make them into communes, like an urban kibbutz".

We decided to focus on the wines of Médoc, the heart of classic cabernet sauvignon-based Bordeaux, which includes prestigious communes like Pauillac, St.-Julien, Margaux and St.-Éstèphe, along with lesser-known satellite regions.

Factories and railways in Catalonia were taken over by workers' committees, and in hundreds of villages in Catalonia, Levante, and Andalusia the peasants seized the land and established libertarian communes like those described by Kropotkin in The Conquest of Bread.

For Neumann, who grew up on a kibbutz in Israel, and McKelvey, who grew up in a commune-like environment in the Pacific Northwest, how community forms around working and living spaces have been life-long fascinations.

Suddenly our commune-like existence had become toxic and frightening.

Her mother, whose second marriage was to a rock musician, cultivated a hippie, commune-like atmosphere.

That's no surprise, considering they not only dance together but also live together in a commune-like "dance village" near Bangalore, India.

Mr. Wright ended up in Detroit in a commune-like house on Manistique Street where it appeared the residents had practiced their own brand of religion.