Example sentences for: alas

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

  • Accordingly, they display cynicism, or alas, lead the reader into ambiguity and paradox.

  • You'd think that all this would just add interest--who needs more artificial sunniness from television, anyway?--but Felicity , alas, is no Ingmar Bergman movie, or even a Quentin Tarantino one, and the darkness just turns some delightful teen-age fare into an exercise in viewer masochism.

  • Alas, I am but one superhero, and could not come to the aid of all who beseeched me.

  • It can be, alas, a business of an entirely good sort or needful sort, justifying itself in the marketplace.

  • As for federal subsidies ... alas, it turns out, the schools that spend the most money don't necessarily do the best job--often far from it.


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