Sentence examples for alas unless from inspiring English sources

Whether you sprinkle them on yogurt or eat them by the calorie-dense handful, dried fruits like cranberries, apricots, and blueberries are tasty ways to pack in antioxidants and vitamin C. Alas, unless you stack coupons and wait for sales, they're a luxury.

Alas, unless you're in Germany or you've got a German iTunes account handy, you're stuck waiting for Google to push the update live wherever you may be.

Alas, unless you're the Lord himself, creation cannot be willed: Joshua needed to eat something before embarking upon it, and hence stood in line behind an overtattooed prick who couldn't decide between banana and pumpkin bread, while the barista in a Che Guevara hat (yet presumably fluent in Middle fucking English) looked on indifferently.

Alas, alas!

Except.... "Except" is the word on which "Private Life" could be said to turn, unless it's the word "alas," that bitterly exhaled emotional response to reversals and defeated expectations.

But alas, prematurely, and alas, disastrously.

ALAS, poor Goethe.

No such luck, alas.

ALAS, poor Oskar Lafontaine.

No, alas.

Unless I'm very much mistaken, what we're seeing in the USA today (and maybe here too alas) is what happens when it isn't stopped.