Synonym: regrettably, unfortunately, unluckily. Similar words: alarm, salad, galaxy, malady, palate, palace, salary, flask. Meaning: [ə'læs] adv. by bad luck.
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31) Nowadays, alas! people had a mania for dashing around.
32) Yet the field is so rich that new insights emerge year after year which, alas, are largely restricted to specialists.
33) Alas, since such passwords are also difficult to remember, they tend to be written down near the computer.
34) A dead good singer, but, alas, no different from the way he was before.
35) Alas, the supes apparently failed to see that editorial, and voted to approve the changes.
36) Here 1 live, constantly thinking of my native land, alas, my heart is aching.
37) Alas, Thompson and her chosen theatre were star-crossed and she now has a production but nowhere to stage it.
38) And, of course, the motive power is inevitably steam but not, alas, genuine West Riding motive power.
39) But, alas, the printed word can not adequately convey the panting, gasping misery of this particular torment.
40) Alas for him, the speech proposing the loyal toast can sometimes take a very long time.
41) Alas, the time came a couple of weeks ago when I needed a hotel room in New Orleans on short notice.
42) But now, alas! your hawthorn bowers All desolate we see!
43) The government has, alas, enclosed some of the mountain streams in concrete banks to prevent land erosion.
44) Alas, I felt the need to top myself each time out.
45) Alas, just when the iron horse appeared unstoppable, a minor derailment gave a short delay before normal service was restored.
46) Charlotte Bronte and her husband did not, alas, attend Killead Presbyterian Church on their honeymoon.
47) Medieval brewers alas knew precious little about good housekeeping practices.
48) Alas, his selection would require an improbable U-turn on the part of the Sassenach segment of the selectors.
49) Sometimes, alas, you will have little control over the matter.
50) Alas, the poll tax will linger on, in less expensive form, until April 1993.
51) Alas, the tempo tweaking didn't end with Mordkovitch's final flounce off the platform.
52) The taskbar also has some important controls that are, alas, annoyingly invisible.
53) And alas, I thought, my penitential journey over, they didn't do it separately in the first place.
54) But meanwhile, in Jerusalem, alas! two sons of Alexander Jannaeus were contending for the kingship.
55) Alas, to win a prize means having luck as well,(www.Sentencedict.com) and these islanders did not have it.
56) It was, alas, also empty of cash, as was the freezer compartment.
57) Alas, such bliss costs several thousand dollars a month, out of range for most of us.
58) Alas, most of our exhibits aren't in anything like such a good state of repair.
59) Alas, his careful pacing and the stars' restrained performances are undermined by a tell-all trailer and an uneven script.
60) That energy and enthusiasm didn't, alas, spring from a perpetual renewable source.