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alas

You use "alas" to express regret. I thought you'd be here, but alas! Alas! I wasn't able to make it.

alas

(= unfortunately) by bad luck unfortunately it rained all day alas, I cannot stay

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Alas English » English

Sad to say Oh My God How sad Ah

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Simple sentences

His girlfriend is a beautiful woman, but alas she is as dumb as a sack of hammers.
Alas, she died young.
Alas! We are ruined.
Alas! You do not know me, Sir.
Alas, I was inattentive.
Alas, I was late.
Alas, he died young.

Movie subtitles

Even to this day I prefer to hunt with it. but alas, even that was too deadly.
Alas, yes.
And I'm still wearing the same dress, alas.
But hold, a lovely maid I see. Rags cannot hide her gentle grace. Alas, she is more fair than thee.
Alas for her! Reveal her name.
Alas, I cannot tell day from night.
Alas, I was that mighty man. 365 wives were mine. In my heart there was no love.
The sun comes alas from behind the clouds.
Alas, poor Harry of England.
Alas, she hath from France too long been chased, and all her husbandry doth lie on heaps, corrupting in its own fertility.
Alas, poor ghost.
Alas, he's mad.
Alas, how is't with you, that you do bend your eye on vacancy, and with the incorporal air do hold discourse?
Alas, alas.
Alas, she is more fair than thee.
Alas for her!
But alas I realize that I was wrong.
Or maybe I shouldn't ask. Alas.
Alas, I was that mighty man.
And this, alas, is my son. Here sits the shame of an artistic family, a famous father's despair, the root of his gray hair.
Alas, few know and appreciate Shakespeare.
Alas, all alone.
Alas, traditions die out.
But alas, all Americans are born tourists and no doubt, he'll want to see the sights.
Alas, I have nothing myself.
Now, to begin with. Have you a family? Alas, no.
Alas, I remember myself too well.
Dr Lavignac came that afternoon. to dispense enlightened but, alas, useless remedies.
He too was wounded, alas, and worse than I was.
Alas, it was too late!
ALAS, SIR, I HAVE NO CARD.
ALAS, NO.
But now, alas, all 3 blossoming youths have crossed The Great River.
Alas, he spoke to me.
Alas, poor Harry of England!

News and current affairs

Alas, there is no single or silver bullet.
Alas, Sgt.Crowley had never heard of Professor Gates.
Alas, the election makes such agreement more distant than ever.
The list, alas, goes on.
But politics, alas, is politics.
Bush, alas, led an aggressive effort to discredit climate science rather than to respond to its findings.
Alas, however bipartisan the Iraq Study Group's report may be, it is too much to expect that Bush will endorse all of its recommendations and admit the bankruptcy of his entire foreign policy.
That is the sad and awful question Lakhani asks, but alas he offers no answer.
Alas, precisely because of their isolation and the Ba'athist regime's paranoiac nature, the Syrians are unlikely to meet the US condition for peace talks: abandoning their current rogue alliances and their marriage with terror.
The chance of being arrested for such malfeasance is, alas, probably very low.
Alas, Keynes stressed these same deficiencies long ago, so we should not expect any miraculous changes in behavior now.
Alas, instead of progress, what we see is a cycle of inadequate educational opportunity leading to a lack of economic opportunity.
Alas, this, too, is Europe.
Alas, some Europhiles' unifying zeal has all too often spilled beyond the bounds of economic reason, even common sense.
Alas, there is an added complication that makes today's shocks all the more vexing: governments and central banks have exhausted the traditional ammunition upon which they have long relied during times of economic duress.
Alas, the revolution soon bogged down.
Alas, it failed as dismally as the League of Nations failed in the l930's.
Alas, Cameron is singularly ill equipped to make such a positive argument.
Alas, central bankers, with their manipulation of interest rates and use of quantitative easing, patently neglect this fact.
Alas, many journalists seem far more willing to fight over their right to gather news than to battle for their right to publish and broadcast the results of their reporting freely.
Alas, there is an important catch.
Alas, it took another world war to convince European leaders of the validity of Keynes's approach.
Alas, India's voice was drowned out, not by China's attempts to provide medicine and education to Africa, but by the sheer magnitude of Chinese state-owned enterprises' investments in physical infrastructure.

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