alas
Example Sentences
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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!”
The Windsors’ world is far from that of ordinary mortals, but no measure of diplomacy, alas, seems sufficient to repair such a tear in a family’s fabric.
Students and parents don’t get to vote in union elections, alas.
The food was OK, alas — a passable brisket burrito, chalky queso, insipid guacamole.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
