Sentence examples for alas failed from inspiring English sources

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.

And the paella, alas, fails to rise above its station.

The plot of "The Spoiler," alas, fails to grow in plausibility as it trundles merrily along.

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

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

I purchased canvas sacks to carry my groceries in (alas, I often failed to recall their existence till I was unloading full, plastic bags into my trunk).

Milan Vukmirovic at Jil Sander picked Prince's "If I Was Your Girlfriend" and "Raspberry Beret," the kinds of songs that remind you what a cool role clothes can play in daily life, something that, alas, Mr. Vukmirovic's clothes failed to convey.

When my national insurance card failed to arrive, alas, it was me who was de-tabarded in front of everyone and marched out of the building despite never (and to this day I still can't eat them, fearful always of the wrath of Mrs Dubbs circling around my head) ever, ever having nicked so much as a vanilla fudge or a jelly worm.

I thought that any moment someone else might show up!" But alas, the nine-hour hearing failed to produce citizens clamoring for the measure.