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Example sentences for: alas

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Alas, I am but one superhero, and could not come to the aid of all who beseeched me.
More and more of them--and alas, more and more Britons--can today be heard talking of “kiLOMetres.”
(So, alas, are the days when you would regularly run into Dawn's novels at thrift sales and in the dustiest corners of secondhand book stores, priced at less than a dollar a volume--which is how I build up most of my collection.)
How terrible at a party to discover that one has never seen The Grand Illusion --one of the all-time great films--or that one has not read, alas, a Toni Morrison novel or one does not own a Wynton Marsalis album.
Alas, he's probably not.