Example sentences for: elian

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

  • By noting that both women shivered in the unfamiliar 16 degree cold as they got off the plane, was the NYT pointing to the fact that Elian has been removed from his native (temperate) country to suggest that perhaps he ought to be returned there?

  • With political negotiations at an impasse, both women made emotional pleas at a press conference for Elian's return to his father in Cuba.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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