alas
Example Sentences
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The 50-year mortgage, alas, is yet another example of an all-too-common pattern: a personal finance product whose superficial appeal does not survive careful scrutiny.
From MarketWatch
No one, alas, remembers these would-be revolutionaries anymore.
The theater’s importance as a locus of intelligent inquiry and intellectual ferment—not momentous, alas—owes a great debt to his influence.
“I’ve still so much to say in music,” he said to a friend, “alas, I cannot get my ideas onto paper!”
“I am heartbroken and ashamed to fail her on such an important occasion, but alas! Circumstances have conspired against me, just as they did on that long-ago day in the milk bath....”
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
