Sentence examples for play alas from inspiring English sources

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1.46pm Still no sign of play, alas.

I'm saying nothing... 12.45pm update: Still no sign of play, alas.

Not the play, alas, but the courtside scene.Photographs published on November 8th show a slightly strange-looking fan who had been in the stands at a women's match days earlier.

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The biggest queue was for candyfloss, while the adult male is denied admittance to the sand and soft play tent (alas, under fives only), but can enjoy the unique experience of urinating into a bale of hay.

The two hit it off, and later that week Harpo drove Shaw to Cannes, where a friend of Shaw's cast them as extras in a movie; a scene featuring them playing billiards, alas, would be left on the cutting-room floor.

I wish I had the finances to see all of the plays but alas, no.

At one point, for example, the group trekked to the Great Lawn to play hacky sack (alas, no one had remembered to bring the actual sack).

The circumstances of the death are fraught with perverse hilarity, and so, at its best, is this play, which is, alas, more often concerned with proving a self-evident dictum: life is not a carnival (2 20).

The circumstances of the death are fraught with perverse hilarity, and so, at its best, is this play, which is, alas, more often concerned with proving a self-evident dictum: life is not a carnival.

In fact, he loved Louis Armstrong so much that he bought a trumpet thinking he was going to learn to play jazz, but alas, there is only one Louis and we can still laugh about that.

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