Example sentences for: elian

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

  • Anti-Castro Cuban expatriates have inserted him into a messianic narrative in which Elian, plucked from the sea, stands as Moses discovered among the bulrushes: Just as Moses led the Jews out of slavery in Egypt, so to will Elian free Cubans from Castro's rule.

  • Then we'll have months of MSNBC on "Where's Elian?"

  • An article in Sunday's LAT does more than lambaste U.S. politicians for using 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez to advance their own interests.

  • Late yesterday the Justice Department released a statement saying that the grandmothers had made "a very compassionate and heartfelt plea" to be reunited with Elian but that the matter is now (read "tied up") in federal court.

  • The LAT stuffs the story but fronts a two-column photo of Elian's two grandmothers in New York upon their arrival from Cuba to ask for the return of their grandson.


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