Helena

//ˈhɛlənə//

"Helena" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena.

Helena is a secretary, right?

"Who came with your sister? "With my sister came her little daughter Helena."

And Helena replied: "Two cakes aren't a lot for me; it would be a lot if it were five or six cakes; but two cakes are very few."

Helena arrived at the airport only minutes before her flight left and profanely berated the airport security staff who told her to empty her pockets and purse and examined her carry-on bag. When she later apologized for her angry outburst, she agreed that her frustration at missing a flight did not give her licence to throw a hissy fit at the airport.

Helena likes to play tennis.

The British Government committed to building an airport on Saint Helena in 2005.

The British garrisoned the island in 1815 to prevent a rescue of Napoleon from Saint Helena.

Helena Smithson, née Dickers, is not a woman to be messed with.

Following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon had to spend the rest of his life in exile on the island of St Helena.

Stay gentle Helena, heare my excuſe: / My loue, my life, my ſoule, faire Helena.

The family tree boasts an astonishing array of celebrated historical figures from the prophet Isaiah to Sir Isaiah Berlin, from Felix Mendelssohn to Karl Marx and Moses Montefiore. The list also includes Yehudi Menuhin, Helena Rubinstein, the Rothschilds and even Rosenstein himself.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.