Used in a Sentence

community

How to use community in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for community.

Editorial note

Can we also skip the submissions asking people not to post things instead of just letting the community decide the same way it's been done for years?

Examples16
Definitions6
Parts of speech1

Quick take

a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of community gathered in one view.

noun

a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"

noun

common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions"

noun

a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for community.

noun

a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"

noun

common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions"

noun

a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community"

noun

agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests"

noun

a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences

noun

(ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other

Example sentences

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Can we also skip the submissions asking people not to post things instead of just letting the community decide the same way it's been done for years?

2

However, this is up to PG and the HN community. It would be good if PG provided a guideline whether submissions behind login walls are accepted or not.

3

Kosher dietary laws meant that they didn't eat with non-Jews and that they bought their food from within the community. Again, it's easy to see how something like "those assholes won't buy meat from me saying my meat isn't clean!"

4

But nothing compared to the lost goodwill for Airbnb, YC, the startup community, and the "new order" in general. Many of us had thought that you all had deprecated the era of Ford Pinto thinking.

5

They don't give a single shit about charity or helping the needy or community contributions or anything like that. Never comes up there, except maybe to laugh about it.

6

The community knows this and both have comment scores above 12, but each person feels pressure to "win". With the green usernames, they're both at 00FF00 and have no idea if the community has given the other person more votes.

7

Or they were lining up to get a meal at community kitchen. Actual black people were not part of this protest, because a mob of black people attacking a bus would be getting wall-to-wall coverage on every channel.

8

It's a little early to say for sure, but I predict this will do more to hurt Apple's reputation in the tech community than anything they've done before. And that is not a good community to alienate.

9

What's deadly for a local library is for nobody from the community to be using it, for it to have no stakeholders from the tax base of the community. The library staff was always welcoming to us.

10

He is now the personification of the a near universal feeling of betrayal in the community. Will be interesting to see how this develops.

11

I am well educated, make a lot of charitable contributions and spend a lot of time volunteering in the local community. Everything the US used to benefit from but now Canada does.

12

As a member of Python community, I hereby congratulate Ruby for joining the ranks of pretty-cool-but-not-so-hot-anymore technologies. There are years of Getting Stuff Done ahead of you.

13

I wouldn't wish this label upon anybody, it's exactly why the community tries to avoid speculating about it. It's extremely irresponsible of the newspaper to publish this — truth or otherwise — especially in such vivid detail.

14

I don't think upper management expected this or understands why the community reacted thus, just as they didn't expect or understand why requiring a Firstname Lastname format on the Internet was problematic. I don't believe Google+ management is malicious, but they do seem woefully unaware of how internet-native communities behave.

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It's possible: bias from sentimental influence is not unheard of in the scientific community. One of the most disappointing things about Musk's response was how he closed it with an out-of-context anecdote: In his own words in an article published last year, this is how Broder felt about electric cars before even seeing the Model S: "Yet the state of the electric car is dismal, the victim of hyped expectations, technological flops, high costs and a hostile political climate.

Quote examples

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In our equation, we are a community of people writing answers that will be read by hundreds or thousands of people. Ours is a project more like wikipedia -- collaboratively creating a resource for the Internet at large. Because that resource is provided by the community, it belongs to the community. That's why our data is freely available and licensed under creative commons. We did this specifically because of the negative experience we had with EE taking a community-generated resource and deciding to slap a paywall around it.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use community in a sentence?

Can we also skip the submissions asking people not to post things instead of just letting the community decide the same way it's been done for years?

What does community mean?

a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"

What part of speech is community?

community is commonly used as noun.