COMMUNITY in a Sentence

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For COMMUNITY, below is one of 249 sentences:
All the industries at Tuskegee have been started in natural and logical order, growing out of the needs of a community settlement.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMMUNITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
community
 n.  society; a group of people living in the same locality and under the same government
Classic Sentence: (89 in 6 pages)
1  And so accordingly of these the community may make compounded and mixed forms of government, as they think good.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  THE legislative power is that, which has a right to direct how the force of the commonwealth shall be employed for preserving the community and the members of it.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  So that under this consideration, the whole community is one body in the state of nature, in respect of all other states or persons out of its community.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  And this power has its original only from compact and agreement, and the mutual consent of those who make up the community.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  It is usually possible to draw in nearly every Southern community a physical color-line on the map, on the one side of which whites dwell and on the other Negroes.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  Left by the best elements of the South with little protection or oversight, he has been made in law and custom the victim of the worst and most unscrupulous men in each community.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  And such proceedings can happen, and will happen, in any community where a class of ignorant toilers are placed by custom and race-prejudice beyond the pale of sympathy and race-brotherhood.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  But the chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  In any community or nation it is these little things which are most elusive to the grasp and yet most essential to any clear conception of the group life taken as a whole.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  This building is the central club-house of a community of a thousand or more Negroes.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
11  Depravity, Sin, Redemption, Heaven, Hell, and Damnation are preached twice a Sunday after the crops are laid by; and few indeed of the community have the hardihood to withstand conversion.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
12  There was a man who was well known in his community as a Negro, but who was so white that even an expert would have hard work to classify him as a black man.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI.
13  Every one in the community was so frightened that no one would nurse the boy.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII.
14  From the first, I resolved to make the school a real part of the community in which it was located.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX.
15  All the industries at Tuskegee have been started in natural and logical order, growing out of the needs of a community settlement.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX.
Example Sentence: (160 in 11 pages)
16  Citizen discussion panels need to explore issues such as public transport, community care, or response to unemployment.
17  The new mayor is reaching out to the local community to involve them in his plans for the city.
18  There has always been a difference between community radio and commercial radio.
19  A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
20  He's well-known in the local community.
21  He did it for the interests of the community.
22  The local community was shocked by the murders.
23  The community is demanding a less aggressive style of policing.
24  The community has dwindled to a tenth of its former size in the last two years.
25  The new arts centre will serve the whole community.
26  All members of the religious community keep these fasts.
27  The pregnant woman in such a community has the support of all the womenfolk in her extended family.
28  The community is appealing to everyone to save water.
29  The place has rapidly developed from a small fishing community into a thriving tourist resort.
30  His speech was an affront to all decent members of the community.