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Example sentences for: alas

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I think the real challenge for a currently employed middle-class professional today would be to spend a year living entirely outside the Internet: no e-mail, no eToys or E*Trade or Amazon, no MP3s or game demos, no online banking or selection of benefits through the company intranet, not to mention, of course, no Slate . I don't think I'd survive for more than a few days (which is why your daughter-in-law, alas, once referred to herself as a "wwww", for "world wide web widow").
… The chances of failure are, alas, much greater, and two in a row look like carelessness."
Alas, there is not much else about America's recent past (save Harry Truman's decisive stance during the early Cold War years) that appeals to Johnson.
(Alas, despite the 18th-century spelling, gaumless, I believe the term comes from Old Norse gaumr heed).
Chatterbox, alas, couldn't pose this question to the book's principal author, Susan P. Baker of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, because ... she's on vacation!