Sentence examples for alas, too from inspiring English sources

The towels were wonderfully thick — alas, too thick for the towel rack, which kept falling out of the wall.

It seems not to occur to them to ask whether, in fact, the world does hate America as much as they (and alas, too many Americans) suppose.

While I've been away from New York before (on that three-week journey upriver to acquire medicine for Pa — alas, too late), this time it feels different, because it will be permanent.

He enclosed a poster he had originally designed for a competition, but was, "alas," "too late in entering it": "The word 'Cancer' is spelt in cork tipped cigarettes, which gets across a point as well as adding to the eye appeal.

Too true, alas, too true and the Sheik was one of them.

The parliament does a terrifically important job, went one argument: alas, too few voters know this.

It reads like fiction, but is alas all too factual.

Taos has a lot of Mexican restaurants, but many, alas, are too mindful of tourists' palates and modulate their condiments.

The ninth album of an uncommonly excellent recording career, it will be released – alas, all too fittingly – on April Fools' Day.

The odds, alas, were too long.

(Version 21?) "Projectors are going away," he said and, alas, so too is film.