How to Use "communal" with Example Sentences

1. A week later , she died of aids and her body was taken in a wheelbarrow to a communal grave .

2. They suspected that because western concepts of happiness are very personal - as opposed to communal - one 's social connections might suffer if one pursues happiness too intensely .

3. I could hear the soft murmur of voices and , at the end of the corridor , saw a cluster of people laughing and talking in the communal washing and cooking area .

4. According to research from psychologists at rice university in houston , such " communal " language can scuttle your chances of getting hired for a management job .

5. This communal spirit is still alive today : when you ask citizens of , for example , pisa how they identify themselves , they are likely to answer first as pisans , then as tuscans , and only after as italians or europeans .