Sentence examples for returned alas from inspiring English sources

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I then fell asleep again and returned, alas, to our current interregnum in which, to quote Gramsci, "the old is dying and the new cannot be born" and culture is little more than "morbid symptoms" of unresolved conflict.

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The last boat back to the mainland departs at 5 -- when it's time to return, alas, to your regularly scheduled vacation.

With returning sight, alas, comes mediocrity at the keyboard.

We've been twiddling our thumbs, waiting for his glorious return, but alas, it never came.

Maybe Charlie Shrem is Gimli but, alas, there is no Gandalf in this tale – no one has died and returned reborn from the clutches of the Balrog (Goldman Sachs).

Alas, alas!

There's no mention of cocaine or hair gel returning as actor props nor, alas, of my dream subplot featuring Joe Pesci as Bernie Madoff.

Later, alas, he blows it by returning to the scene for a jolting flashback, filmed like any other action movie, this time inside the Shack.

But, alas, he was not destined to return.

When he returns two hours later to the locked car, alas, his wife has died.

Wilson was prescient enough to appreciate, but alas not sufficiently determined or adroit to have insisted upon a fundamental reality that all nations ultimately return to a stasis, an equilibrium that works for each of them and their people.

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