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?

  • 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.

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

  • Are the conservatives hypocrites about Elian, as you said?

  • What is hypocritical is the way we've got all these Cuban refugees languishing in U.S. prisons, without any rights whatsoever to a speedy trial, just because they came here in a less dramatic fashion than did young Elian.


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