Sentence examples for ah me from inspiring English sources
interjection
An expression of lamentation; alas.
Ah, me, my digestive system and Tennessee.
9th over: India 31-0 (Sehwag 17, Dravid 8) Ah, me, Dravid gets another life, though he's surely deserved them after his efforts in the series!
Where has your good sense gone…" In contrast, Lattimore captures something far nearer to the original, a mother mourning her son's death: "Ah me, where has that wisdom gone for which you were famous?" Homer's epic is not just composed of harridan wives and brave men.
"Ah me," groans Odysseus, "what are the people whose land I have come to this time?" That sense of dislocation has been shared by veterans returning from the field of war since Homer conjured Odysseus' inauspicious return some 2,800 years ago.
Likewise, "Ah, Me" is an unflinching tale of a broken engagement too candid not to have actually happened.
"I'd done encores of 'Ah, mes amis' before," said Mr. Flórez, 35.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin' alive.
Now say it together, ah-me.
The dashing tenor Juan Diego Flórez, the new king of the Bel Canto repertory, sang a brilliant account of "Ah! mes amis," the buoyant aria from Donizetti's "Fille du Regiment," complete with all nine high C's tossed off with confidence.
If he cracked on three of those testing nine top Cs in 'Ah, mes amis!', despite the entire audience willing him on, it sounded to me like first-night nerves; I have no doubt he'll pull them off as the run continues, as will the Trovatore cast when the sun shines on them, too.
