Sentence examples for will alas be from inspiring English sources

Non-philosophers (including many scientists) will, alas, be at sea.

Most of the furnishings will, alas, be removed when the show house closes.

But since conductors will only patrol the bus during the daytime, the open platform will alas be shut behind perspex doors at night.

If the French government gets its way, as it so often does in such matters, Areva will, alas, be forced into an arranged marriage and Ms Lauvergeon will probably move on.Should Mr Monti have been tougher on Alstom last year?

By choosing her – acclaimed and bestselling, but also trenchant, highly mannered and somewhat complicated – Céline's creative director, Phoebe Philo, is sending out quite a bracing message, even if the semaphore in which it's written will, alas, be largely illegible to those who know nothing of Didion.

We'll, alas, be hard at work — but we're marking the event in this week's contest.

An era that began in June 1960 will close at the end of this month, and development will start on flats, offices, and a hotel that will not, alas, be called Fawlty Towers.

John Tortorella's lasting legacy with the Rangers will not, alas, be a Stanley Cup.

So disconsolate lorry drivers will, alas, still be stuck by the roadside smoking low-tax beedis.

Since that, alas, is impossible, they will have to wait for her to stumble.

But we will have to keep waiting: that, alas, was not the report that the Labor Department released for October.