How to Use communist in a Sentence

communist

noun

• A year later Cambodia fell to the communist Khmer Rouge.
  — Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 9 July 2018
• Most are machine ruled, under systems that are either communist, monarchic, or democratic.
  — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 7 July 2018
• Many of the players on the Croatian team were born in communist Yugoslavia in the 1980s.
  — Larry Wolff, WSJ, 13 July 2018
• Koziol, however, blames Poland's post-war communist rule for Hlond's reticence.
  — Fox News, 4 July 2018
• Koziol, however, blames Poland’s post-war communist rule for Hlond’s reticence.
  — Washington Post, 4 July 2018
• PiS officials claim the judicial reforms are needed to fight corruption and rid the courts of communist-era influence.
  — Kristen Chick, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2018
• Season 2 Aegon is a goofy little communist, viewed by his family and advisors as an incompetent ruler.
  — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 14 July 2024
• Although the number of people from the communist era still in judicial positions has dwindled, the party says that communist thinking still infects the system.
  — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2018
• The purge of Poland’s Supreme Court threatened to extend rollbacks in a nation that was once a post-communist democratic success story, critics said.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 4 July 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
• 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
• 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
• Wishing to be a good communist, Xi has tacked in the other direction.
  — Dexter Roberts, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
• The city's café culture has made a strong comeback (the communists had closed down the cafés, fearing a dissident breeding ground).
  — Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2019
• All during the sixties, those kind of charges were made like Moscow Gold, the students are getting aid from communists.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 15 May 2024
• During his decades in power, the 61-year-old switched from a pro-Serbian communist to a pro-Western politician.
  — Predrag Milic, ajc, 3 Apr. 2023
• In 1954, at the height of the McCarthy era, Oppenheimer was accused of being a communist and even a Soviet spy.
  — Calder Walton, Fortune, 24 July 2023
• Do not follow the advice of Twitter communists and stage a rent strike with hammer and sickle in hand, tempting as that might be.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2020
• When the quit this year, , a tsunami of invective washed over social media, calling him a communist, a traitor, a crook.
  — Washington Post, 3 June 2020
• Still, Kundera was not the most orthodox of communists.
  — Jared Marcel Pollen, The New Republic, 12 July 2023

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024