How do you use Alas in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like unfortunately or unluckily, plus the exact meaning.
Alas in a sentence
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Alas meaning
Used to express sorrow, regret, compassion, grief, resignation, or disappointment.
Synonyms of Alas
Using Alas
- The main meaning on this page is: Used to express sorrow, regret, compassion, grief, resignation, or disappointment.
- Useful related words include: unfortunately, unluckily, regrettably, luckily.
- In the example corpus, alas often appears in combinations such as: but alas, alas the, alas it.
Context around Alas
- Average sentence length in these examples: 17.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 20 start, 0 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Alas
- In this selection, "alas" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 17.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, add, boob and clough stand out and add context to how "alas" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alas it was and alas add one. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "alas" sits close to words such as ala, analogy and archipelago, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with alas
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Alas, my flight to Rome is boarding. (7 words)
Alas, not everyone can have impeccable taste. (7 words)
Alas, the Bills came up short again. (7 words)
Alas, that doesn’t appear to be in the cards, so evidently only UK audiences will only be able to watch in theaters, though we’ll obviously let you know if there’s a 180 degree turn and that ends up happening stateside too. (44 words)
Alas, the church (and later German and Italian migrants) came to the rescue and created a pre-Federation supply chain of beer and wine (‘tis in the good book) to knock down the potency. (34 words)
Alas, the dismissal of horror cinema at major award shows continues into the modern world, thus ensuring that so many great horror films from 2022 stand no chance of scoring Oscar glory. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Alas, add one more thing the real estate market is about to upend: your job.
Alas, Boob's massive ego could not be held down.
Alas, Clough was soon gone, but he would signed Shilton at Nottingham Forest.
Alas for these brave souls, their time will come.
Alas, German World War I film ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ won the award.
Alas, his writings had up to then been ignored by Italian readers and critics.
Alas, it pegged out on the way, probably from the added stress of having a red-nosed bawheid slavering over it.
Alas, it was also the final one of the season for the Bulldogs.
Alas, it was far from the only such act as England reprised their rancid form of the August warm-up matches like a horrible recurring fever dream.
Alas, Mr Biden is not getting much credit — or at least that is what the polling seems to suggest.
Alas, my flight to Rome is boarding.
Alas, my Lighthouse Point Park is not the one from the stories.
Alas, nature’s tears kept the audience at bay, the rain serving as an uninvited guest.
Alas, not everyone can have impeccable taste.
Alas not the one sporting a script pad.
Alas, poor Arsenal: so good for so long this season, and so disappointing when it came to the crunch.
Alas, that doesn’t appear to be in the cards, so evidently only UK audiences will only be able to watch in theaters, though we’ll obviously let you know if there’s a 180 degree turn and that ends up happening stateside too.
Alas, the Bills came up short again.
Alas, the church (and later German and Italian migrants) came to the rescue and created a pre-Federation supply chain of beer and wine (‘tis in the good book) to knock down the potency.
Alas, the dismissal of horror cinema at major award shows continues into the modern world, thus ensuring that so many great horror films from 2022 stand no chance of scoring Oscar glory.
Common combinations with alas
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- but alas 43×
- alas the 28×
- alas it 20×
- alas that 7×
- alas they 7×
- alas he 7×
- alas there 6×
- alas my 5×
- alas this 4×
- alas we 4×