Helen

//ˈhɛlən//

"Helen" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Helen is very worried about her daughter.

Helen jumped in fright at the strange sound.

Helen shrieked with terror.

Helen is more pretty than beautiful.

Helen is in love with his personality.

Helen visits her uncle every Sunday.

Helen is playing in the yard.

Helen is by nature an optimist.

Helen does not eat enough and she is getting thin.

Helen got off at the next stop.

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Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair, When with your blood you daily paint her thus.

"Is her name Ellen or Helen, Miss Viner? I thought —" Miss Viner closed her eyes. "I can sound my h's, dear, as well as anyone, but Helen is not a suitable name for a servant. I don't know what the mothers in the lower classes are coming to nowadays."

...in 1910 she brought Helen into the world, the little female, or "mujercita", as her mother called all the babies, naming her after the glittery label on a facial ointment, The Helen of Troy Beauty Pomade, said to eradicate wrinkles, to soften and add a youthful glow to the user's skin - a fortuitous choice because, of all the sisters, she would be the most beautiful and, never growing old, would always possess the face of a winsome adolescent beauty.

Gemma followed her, thinking that Helen seemed rather an old-fashioned and elegant name for this rumpled young mother.

The Yellow Helen […] belongs to a clade of related swallowtail butterflies, the helenus group, or Helens, which are typically large, predominantly black butterflies with long tails and a large, white area on the hindwings.

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