Sentence examples for that were alas from inspiring English sources

Meat dishes arrived with round, hand-cut fries that were, alas, soggy on two occasions.

I also took orders from friends -- orders that were, alas, not to be filled.

We began one dinner with an amuse-bouche, a demitasse of tangy vegetable purée, served gratis with thick slices of multiseeded bread that were, alas, ice-cold.

INSIDE TRACK: A much-improved S.U.V. that is, alas, D.O.A.

It is the American premiere of a theatrical evening that is, alas, not yet booked anywhere else in this country.

The best scene is a high-stakes dance-off that is, alas, edited to death, leaving the impression that few of the actors know how to dance.

A fate that is alas inevitable for some electronic mail when messages are arriving in batches faster than you can say "download".

But, oh, what a difference a few more dollars makes! Pierre Chermette of Domaine du Vissoux makes some great cru Beaujolais that are, alas, more than $20.

You could easily get the impression that the ordinary workers of Europe are about to explode in rage, making it impossible for their governments to push through the painful austerity measures that are, alas, needed in so many European countries.

But Simonson pulls it off, making "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand" an entertaining and even rather moving novel of goings-on in a thin, gimcrack England that is, alas, only too recognizable.

Fiction writers report writing in a kind of trance in which they simply take dictation from the voices and characters in their head, a grace that is, alas, rarely if ever granted nonfiction writers.