Example sentences for: elena

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

  • Another "clean start" for Elena, this one is launched in a customary Didion daze.

  • 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.

  • It is born of another of those fated yet fortuitous connections in Didion's disorienting world, this one between two people (Elena McMahon and Treat Morrison) who "were equally remote."

  • 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.

  • 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.


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