Sentence examples for alas, it failed from inspiring English sources

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Alas, it failed.

Alas, it failed pretty miserably, and not without reason.

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Its denizens are now striving for silver (alas, according to one of many progress and performance reports posted on the factory wall, it failed to meet its goal of doing so by December and is now aiming for June).

I wanted to write about scooter startups this week, but, alas, I failed to care enough about them to muster any opinion at all.

It failed.

It failed because it failed.

Still, there is a fine line between invigoration and assault, and alas, it's a line that Raine regularly fails to observe.

Kieran, alas, failed to outwit the machine.

Carol Vorderman, alas, failed her £1m (or £250,000, to be exact) test.

Those looking for gaps in the story will note that it treads very gingerly around the 80s, a decade in which Bowie appeared to lose interest in music, but, alas, failed to see that as a reason to stop making records.

That evening at the Comic Strip she'd bitten a man in the front row but, alas, he'd failed to bite her back.

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