Example sentences for: elena

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

  • Indeed, it has been estimated that the deleterious mutation rate in viruses that replicate using RNA polymerases (either reverse transcriptase in the case of retroviruses or RNA-dependent RNA polymerase for other RNA viruses) is on the order of one error per replication cycle, so that many of the viral progeny produced by replication are defective (Elena and Moya 1999).

  • One woman, the narrator, cross-examines the inscrutable life of another woman, Elena McMahon, hoping but not really expecting to find meaning in it.

  • 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.

  • Scrutinized from the ground, which is where the narrator and Elena McMahon are, this history is not as random as it might seem.

  • 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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