How to Use communist in a Sentence

communist

noun

• How much was the life of a Cuban communist worth in 1962?
  — Nora Gámez Torres, miamiherald, 27 Oct. 2017
• The Ku Klux Klan spied on both the fascists and the communists.
  — John Buntin, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Christie calls Mike in Montclair a bum and a communist.
  — Gabriella Paiella and Jessica Roy, The Cut, 14 July 2017
• 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 Albania plans are afoot to open the house of Enver Hoxha, the communist who ruled the country for 41 years.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• But many Poles felt that approach let communists go free—and even stay in power.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 22 July 2017
• In the film, Hughes plays Leo, a young German communist, and the titular Joan's first love.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 19 Apr. 2019
• After the war, communists took over the country for 30 years, wanting the Jews to stay, seeing them as clever people.
  — Shoshana Brower, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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
• The Broot sons were all born in the ‘70s and ‘80s, when Afghanistan was under communist rule and Soviet troops invaded the country.
  — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 12 Sep. 2017
• Wishing to be a good communist, Xi has tacked in the other direction.
  — Dexter Roberts, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
• A year later Cambodia fell to the communist Khmer Rouge.
  — Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 9 July 2018
• 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
• Exiled From the Airwaves The consensus of the corporate executives running the new consensus medium in postwar America was that communists should not be seen on it.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025