Alas Sentence Examples

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  • Alas, I couldn't keep her long as I wished.

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  • Alas, woman and child have missed their opportunity to share our company.

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  • But, alas, the danger was too great and I am a cautious man.

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  • Alas, I am too weak to show my words around here.

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  • When Lucien pressed him to "dare," he replied "Alas, I have dared only too much already."

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  • Alas! what with foddering the cattle and tending the store, we are kept from school too long, and our education is sadly neglected.

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  • Alas, the society itself became defunct in May 2003.

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  • Alas, most people don't have the ideal space and the ideal budget to create a dream room.

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  • Alas, it turns out the deals really are not a deal at all.

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  • But alas, by the time they had finished climbing through the tree, it was completely draped with their dusty, gray cobwebs.

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  • Alas, due to the luxury status and exposure of Fendi, this prime designer has fallen subject to the replica industry.

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  • Contrary, alas, to popular belief, the looting of personal property is illegal under the Hague Rules of Land Warfare.

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  • At this juncture, alas, he is cruelly betrayed by his wicked nephew Mordred who has usurped the throne at home.

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  • But alas, the only loser bona fide is my beloved, my sweetie, my child, James.

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  • It is, alas, the case that few would-be censors are capable of intelligently reading or viewing that which they wish to censor.

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  • Alas London's coffee houses of old too died a death.

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  • And many a man in his own breast then delves, But deep enough, alas!

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  • But they, alas, have been deprived of pastures just as the imperialist fatherlands which cast them out were deprived of colonies.

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  • Here, alas, political issues may well poke their ugly heads above the parapet.

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  • Alas, his ontological presence was all too insistent.

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  • To this More answered, " Alas, Meg, it pitieth me to remember unto what misery, poor soul, she will .shortly come; these dances of hers will prove such dances that she will spurn our heads off like footballs; but it will not be long ere her head will dance the like dance."

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  • Alas for us, after a few right-angled bends, the stream sank into the floor, as did the roof.

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  • The ladies denied it until the bitter end, but alas, the romance is gone and Sam said "see ya" to Lindsay.

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  • Alas, there are a few problems with cork, however.

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  • Alas for his father's intentions, the Heralds are notably more tolerant of diversity than the petty landowners.

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  • I'd rather have entertained my house guest than listened to his sniveling and begging but alas, I do what I have to do.

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  • Here is he merely offered a flimsy thread that, we hope, may guide him through the maze of facts, but alas!

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  • Ancient woodland shelters the common dormouse, now, alas, becoming rare.

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  • Scottish politics looks very different today (alas, the same cannot be said for Scottish football ).

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  • Alas a last-lap shoot-out was denied spectators, red flags coming out to bring proceedings to a premature halt.

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  • Alas, gone are the days when we had to take camp gear to and from the railroad stations by hired handcarts.

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  • Glenys Kinnock is also there, but alas there isn't a live linkup with her husband, as we'd perhaps hoped.

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  • Alas, tho he had opened a manhole with his robot, he had then descended into endless caverns with no apparent route out.

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  • I've got a few oldies which are not in use, and don't fit in the garage alas.

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  • If these measures fail, there are surgical operations which can be tried - but alas the results are variable.

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  • Then fetching a deep sigh from the bottom of his heart, " Alas!

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  • Alas, both public bar and lounge were so smokey we half expected to see a pack of beagles ensconced in the corner.

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  • Spears and swords of iron we leave to whose who, alas, consider human blood and swine 's blood of well-nigh equal value.

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  • Alas no minutes but it was at that this meeting that Barry Steele-Bodger was elected to serve on the three-man tribunal mentioned above.

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  • One man proposed a book in which visitors should write their names, as at the White Mountains; but, alas!

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  • Alas with the announcement of the end of roadster production, this car will remain unique.

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  • Alas, even Burger King now has a Caesar Salad on the menu, which might just finish off the poor beast.

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  • Alas, I have not the stamina required to try to get through to Tricky 's thick skull.

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  • It seemed as if theirs was one of the more stable marriages in Hollywood, but alas, Hilary and Chad had their problems too.

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  • A slight advantage, especially since I'm 6'1" and 220 lbs. But alas, I overcame my bulkiness (ok, HUSKY) to consistently beat her... but I can still see the vengeance in her eyes.

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  • Alas, the empty bottle left me licking my lips and craving for more, Le Pousseur has got me hooked.

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  • Yes, there are many love games, and we've only just scratched the surface, but alas, our time together has ended.

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  • Alas, the days of standing on a city street corner and reciting poetry for cash donations are long past, at least in the United States.

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  • Victoria's Secret clothing can be found online and in the catalogs but, alas, not in the stores.

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  • Alas for excellent intentions, her escape pod is improperly directed and misses the main space lanes, and drifts for years.

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  • Alas, too little, too late, and the gang locates and kills his family as well.

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  • Alas, for good intentions, Gollum leads the two directly to the lair of Shelob, a giant spider, who stings Frodo with a poisonous bite, allowing him to be captured by orcs.

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  • Alas, The Reverend Willard Humphries was done for the night, and so was I.

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  • I have searched in many cookbooks for that delight, alas to no avail.

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  • Alas, even Burger King now has a Caesar salad on the menu, which might just finish off the poor beast.

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  • Ah, my bone ache, my limbs be sore, alas I have the sciatica full evil in my hip.

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  • But alas, Pammy has shocked us before (like, by writing a book), and she has shocked us again by announcing her upcoming nuptials with none other than Kid Rock.

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  • Alas, low GI foods will help keep insulin in check so the cravings and overeating episodes do not occur.

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  • Alas, without the chemistry of the original characters, and the freshness of the original premise, now nine years old, the new cast could not generate the ratings it needed to survive, and it left the air in 2002.

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  • While there was much to admire in TPM, there was also, alas, much to deride.

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  • She was, alas, the helpless victim of my outbursts of temper and of affection, so that she became much the worse for wear.

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  • But alas! they are not, and I shall have to content myself with a stroll in the Gardens.

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  • I plunged into the oncoming billows, as a strong swimmer dives into breakers, and struck, alas, 'tis true, the bedpost!

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  • Mount Kabalaki in the north rises above Io,000 ft.; the culminating point appears to be Mt Alas (over 12,000 ft.) near the east coast.

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  • It is separated from Bali by the Strait of Lombok and from Sumbawa by the Strait of Alas.

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  • The smallest state has lots of small people; delightful children everywhere, but alas, now there is one less.

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  • But alas, when they visited the ladies room, I followed!

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