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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of commune.

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Examples

  • This is true, but when we say "communed" we simply express a vague intangible something the existence of which lives somewhere in a kind of mental fiction.

    Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study Thomas Washington Talley

  • But she sniffed her independence so sharply that he communed with his pipe till she tied the flaps on the outside and slushed away on the flooded trail.

    SIWASH 2010

  • She communed a while, then unrolled a second manuscript.

    CHAPTER VI 2010

  • "Pockets is the damnedest things I ever see for makin 'a man absent-minded," he communed that night, as he crawled into his blankets.

    All Gold Canon 2010

  • "Now I wonder what ship was sunk off the Plate eight years ago?" he communed, as if with himself.

    CHAPTER XXIX 2010

  • "I wonder, I wonder," Mrs. Grantly communed aloud.

    Jack London's Short Story: Planchette 2010

  • They have communed over the makeshift memorials that have been growing outside her office, at the Safeway near the shooting, and at the hospital.

    Tucson shooting: With Giffords in Houston, staff vows to carry on her work Sandhya Somashekhar 2011

  • He communed with himself for a moment, and then muttered indignantly:

    THE SEA FARMER 2010

  • They have communed over the makeshift memorials that have been growing outside her office, at the Safeway near the shooting, and at the hospital.

    Tucson shooting: With Giffords in Houston, staff vows to carry on her work Sandhya Somashekhar 2011

  • "She's sure well put up," he communed with himself; "and she sure knows how to dress and carry it off without being stuck on herself and without laying it on thick."

    Chapter X 2010

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