Sentence examples for alas ate from inspiring English sources
(Pollard, alas, ate his cousin).
(The butterflies, alas, didn't make it onto the screen: Shirley MacLaine's dog ate them).
This is a dish that Elvis, alas, never lived to eat.
And the old cut-velvet fabric is lovely but, alas, moth-eaten.
(I usually eat those alone, alas).
(Please let me know if you have ever heard of this!) It's one of those dishes that looks kind of weird and sounds like something I really wouldn't like to eat... but alas, it has become my favorite thing of all on Christmas Eve.
(In the case of Paul O'Neill, alas, the intimidation seems to be working). A mild-mannered, upbeat candidate would get eaten alive.
At a dinner once, President Reagan dispensed a piece of advice that, alas, I have let go to "waist": If you're the after-meal speaker, eat the dessert first.
We, alas, in too many ways, have been what the writer Kurt Andersen called "The Grasshopper Generation," eating through the prosperity that was bequeathed us like hungry locusts.
The show is the first in a newly renovated space at the Diane von Furstenberg Studio, a sparklingly clean room but, alas, one with dialogue-eating acoustics; actors sometimes cannot be understood even though they're only a few feet away.
