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Alas
"Alas" in a Sentence (16 examples)
Alas, she died young.
Alas, he died young.
Alas, what ill luck has befallen me!
Alas! We are ruined.
Many of our pioneers are still alive... but, alas, many of them aren't alive any more.
Alas.
Alas! You do not know me, Sir.
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Alas, I've no time today. If I did, I'd go to the movies with you.
Alas! this fear was realized.
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I wanted to catch the last bus home, but alas, I was ten minutes late and had to take a taxi instead.
Helas I lamente the dull abuſyd brayne The enfatuate fantaſies the wytles wylfulnes Of on and hothyr at me that haue dyſdayne
Alas poore Yorick, I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite Ieſt; of moſt excellent fancy, he hath borne me on his backe a thouſand times: And how abhorred my Imagination is, my gorge riſes at it.
Standing afarre off for the feare of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great citie Babylon, that mighty citie: for in one houre is thy iudgement come.
The thorough and shameless commercialism of Sex has alas! been reserved for what is called "Christian civilization," and with it (perhaps as a necessary consequence) Prostitution and Syphilis have grown into appalling evils, accompanied by a gigantic degradation of social standards, and upgrowth of petty Philistinism and niaiserie.
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