Example sentences for: helena

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

  • In the Sunday Telegraph , interviewer Helena de Bertodano said that her first meeting with Brown had been "tense" because a "PR magnate, an elderly man with a cut-glass English accent" had insisted on sitting in on their conversation but that Brown subsequently arranged a one-on-one meeting for the next day.

  • It soon became the focus for state occasions, such as the return of the ex-emperor’s own remains from St. Helena in 1840 and the funeral of Victor Hugo in 1885.

  • Helena Rubenstein was a Polish Jew who embarked on a career as a cold- and vanishing-cream saleswoman only after her parents interrupted her medical education to ship her out of reach of an unsuitable boyfriend.

  • The mansion boasts not only Empire furniture but also a remarkable collection of Napoleonic memorabilia: busts, portraits, and even his pistol, hat, and death mask from St. Helena.

  • Millionaires such as songwriter Irving Berlin and cosmetic queen Helena Rubinstein made this their playground with hideaway mansions known as “cottages.”


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