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.
And, alas, they also had to agree that the ban would lapse after 10 years unless a future Congress and president extended it.
From Los Angeles Times
The story was inspired by a true-life Seattle crime incident — alas, if I tell you more, I’ll spoil the book’s suspense — and by Dugoni’s desire to challenge himself within his genre.
From Seattle Times
And alas, the end — at least as the presidential season goes — is nowhere near.
From Washington Post
It’s the question that has animated “Succession” since it debuted on HBO in 2018, and one that remains unanswered as the Emmy-winning drama series begins its fourth and — alas — final season Sunday night.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
