Sentence examples for alas but from inspiring English sources

The adults ordered oatmeal and an egg white omelet (it came with yolks, alas) but quickly preyed upon our daughter's fluffy waffle.

Since Murdoch's thesis is very much like that advanced in my new book, An Army of Davids (not yet published in the UK, alas, but you can read an excerpt online here), don't expect me to argue.

Its little compartments and passageways are more suited to tetras and goldfish than whale sharks (alas), but it's still an awfully cool little thing.

By overexpression of genes encoding ALAS, but not ALAD, production could be increased 2-fold.

Woolfish, alas, but tough".

It was brief, alas, but it included a rainbow.

(Behind a subscriber firewall, alas, but here's a taste).

But, alas, I do but dream.

But alas, prematurely, and alas, disastrously.

But alas, poor Dippy!

But alas, it is.