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Example sentences for: alas

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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!
R: I saw desserts; I'd no lemons, alas, no melon; distressed was I .
Alas, the kind of bystander you are is helpless because people in these relationships have blinders on and defenses in place.
Your experience, alas, is a perfect example of the old saying, "No good deed goes unpunished."
basement, alas, a mop and bucket my squeezingremedy: and Phyllis off at a funeral: