Sentence examples for until alas from inspiring English sources
Flashbulbs popped as she posed until, alas, she was interrupted by news that the party's most credible guest had turned up.
Beware!" we're reminded at the end, the kind of warning we never quite heed, that Xanadu always seems somehow within reach until, alas, it isn't.
And "Romper" feels an exceptionally pure account of tango tradition — until, alas, its final quarter, when suddenly, probably in acknowledgment of the Tango Nuevo developments, it abounds in acrobatic extensions and lifts.
Amusing and pleasant, especially for nostalgic devotees, the show is also, well, headless, roaming whimsically around in the Gorey oeuvre until, alas, the inevitable happens and the body stops twitching.
And anyway, I didn't want anything to interfere with the way the meat inside the pasta tasted different from the meat in the tomato sauce, and I made sure each bite had some of both, until, alas, the pan was empty.
Until, alas, the studios figured out how to please audiences with cookie-cutter three-act pablum, and the raging bulls and easy riders were tamed.
I like to think that New Yorker cartoons and cartoonists belong in that pantheon, but, alas, until now, not one of those more than a hundred and forty-three thousands minutes has been devoted to them.
When Smith sits down to an obscure species of card game, the exposition becomes more and more amusingly unfollowable until the narrator gives up: "alas the explanation is bungled, but it cannot be recalled and started over again, for the game has begun Still, the reader may now find himself in as bemused a position as Mr Smith; which is, to be sure, a kind of gain in understanding".
March Madness is, alas, still not happening until March, but conference realignment madness is a year-round spectacle.
The lust was palatable, but alas, it was not quenched until the fourth round.
