Sentence examples for alas could from inspiring English sources

They gave the illusion of a dancer on point -- but their high, narrow four-inch heels, alas, could make your feet feel that way, too.

The store, alas, could not find the fetching canary yellow suit, but Beau whisked me through the men's department, showing me other options.

I thought it would look like I was capitalising on a popular and fondly remembered film that, alas, could only now be enjoyed on DVD.

Mr O'Hagan, whose main retail outlets were the Woolpack Inn near Chichester and a clutch of local farmers' markets, claimed that Mr Heap had taken many recipes with him.But recipes, alas, could not be patented.

Harold is unhappy ("Worse than adversity the Childe befell / He felt the fulness of satiety"), unrepentant ("For he through Sin's long labyrinth had run, / Nor made atonement when he did amiss"), and unrequitedly in love ("Had sigh'd to many though he loved but one / And that loved one, alas! could ne'er be his").

(I was invited but, alas, couldn't make it).

(Santorum, in a follow up interview today, did thank the soldier, and claimed he did not hear the booing, but alas he could not turn back time. The truth was out there).

The aim of this study was to develop a highly sensitive assay for ALAS that could be used on whole tissue or cellular homogenates.

But, alas, we could not detect any influence on the debate.

But alas, I couldn't, and gave up (and turned the pump back on).

But alas, they could not photograph themselves in front of Room 871, because the plaque was missing.