Example sentences for: alas

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

  • Prudie cannot run for president because she is having such fun working at Slate . She is, also, alas, out of the crusade business.

  • Alas, it was not long before the shadow of a certain Adolf fell over Europe: Hittli was so near to Hitler that the likeness became, for an immigrant, decidedly uncomfortable.

  • "If he should one day take his chance in a presidential election, it should be remembered that he tried--and, alas, with partial success--to align American Middle East policy with the positions of an ultranationalist Israeli party."

  • … The chances of failure are, alas, much greater, and two in a row look like carelessness."

  • They built a grand house with a budget that mushroomed beyond their means, and when it was finally finished, alas, there was no money to furnish it.


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