Example sentences for: elena

How can you use “elena” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Elena McMahon has been propelled into a demimonde where, as the narrator puts it in a knowing pastiche of official jargon, those "trying to create a context for democracy" are "maybe getting [their] hands a little dirty in the process or just opting out, letting the other guy call it."

  • As she tries to decipher the convoluted course of her Central American adventure, Elena McMahon, "not one of those who saw in a flash how every moment could connect," discovers memory and imagination--faculties that Didion's previous heroines did their best to deny.

  • The plot happens to be an assassination, in which Elena McMahon soon figures.

  • Elena barely knows what she is doing when she buys a ticket to see her father in Miami, though then it dawns on her that she wants to persuade him of something that he, like Elena herself, seems to be having trouble absorbing: that her mother--his ex-wife--is now dead.

  • Elena, a course of radiation treatments for breast cancer behind her, has distanced herself from her dying mother, her rich ex-husband, her resentful daughter.


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