ALAS in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for ALAS, such as:

1. It was, alas, only too easy to do.
2. No, alas, we're going back to town.
3. But alas, that very evening destroyed it all.
4. Ever and anon a bright, but, alas, deceptive idea would dart you through.
5. You are, alas, Frank's wife and honor has forbidden my telling this to you.

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alas
 ad.  by bad luck
Classic Sentence:
1  You are, alas, Frank's wife and honor has forbidden my telling this to you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
2  It was not, alas, a clean rush of waves they had to win through, but a clogging morass of old associations and habits, and for the moment its vapours were in his throat.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
3  Ever and anon a bright, but, alas, deceptive idea would dart you through.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
4  They would have liked to follow it up, but, alas, they had no time for adventures just then.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
5  Jurgis had, alas, very little time to see his baby; he never felt the chains about him more than just then.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
6  But, alas, it was again the case of the honest merchant, who finds that the genuine and unadulterated article is driven to the wall by the artistic counterfeit.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
7  No, alas, we're going back to town.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
8  But alas, sunset light was unsympathetic to her make-up; plated it looked, not deeply interfused.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
9  But alas, that very evening destroyed it all.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
10  It was, alas, only too easy to do.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
11  Alas, alas," murmured he, "if the procureur himself had been at Marseilles I should have been ruined.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Examination.
12  Doctor," cried Villefort, "alas, doctor, how often has man's justice been deceived by those fatal words.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 80. The Accusation.
13  On this he groaned, and cried out, 'Alas, alas, then the old prophecy about me is coming true.'
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IX
14  Such would be my liberty except that in my Elizabeth I possessed a treasure, alas, balanced by those horrors of remorse and guilt which would pursue me until death.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
15  Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky does not prevent rags on man.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
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