Sentence examples for lena from inspiring English sources
proper noun
From the Scandinavian, German and Russian pet form of Helena, Magdalena and Yelena (also spelled Elena).
People "scorn and hate lesbians, and hate and beat gays", said Lena, a 14-year-old from Abakan, a city of 170,000 in Siberia.
"I can go on [the Deti-404 site] and see that there are other teens with non-traditional orientations and people who wish me happiness and don't hate me," Lena said.
Born in Clapton, east London, into a Jewish family, Joan was the daughter of Lena (nee Lesser), a teacher, and Jack Weiner, a tailor.
Examples include Nawapa, a stillborn American proposal to divert rivers from British Columbia to California, or an even madder Soviet-era plan to divert the Ob and Lena rivers from north to south.
Siberia's Yenisey and Lena each carries more water to the sea than the Mississippi or the Nile.
In four decades the population of native Yakuts in the Lena basin collapsed by 70%.
Facing defeat against Anna-Lena Friedsam, Victoria Azarenka, Sloane Stephens and Safarova, who was appearing in her first grand slam final, she willed herself to victory, determined not to let a chance of a title go by.
In Paris, she has suffered most of the tournament with her breathing and looked decidedly out of sorts leading up to the quarter-finals as she dropped the first set against each of Anna-Lena Friedsam, ranked 105 in the world, Victoria Azarenka and Sloane Stephens, before returning to something like her best form in two sets against the 17th seed, Sara Errani, on Tuesday.
First-round opponent: Anna-Lena Friedsam (GER) The Newport Beach, California native, who was sidelined by injury for a long time and built her ranking back into the top 200 from nothing, posted three quality wins in the qualifying against players from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
Like Lena Dunham's Girls but more realistic and with black women in, Guinevere Turner (later to make her name as the screenwriter of American Psycho) plays the cool 90s New York dyke in back-to-front baseball cap and big boots trying to get laid.
Sky Atlantic already airs Game of Thrones on Mondays, 24 hours after the episode has been shown in the US; this year it chose to launch both the Lena Dunham comedy Girls and its newest American acquisition, Togetherness, in the same way.
