Alas is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ALAS in dictionary:

INTERJECTION:
• an interjection expressing grief
• used to express grief, pity, or concern
• An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.
ADVERB:
• unfortunately, regrettably
• by bad luck
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• used to express sorrow or regret
• {mdash} used to express sorrow or regret

Words related to ALAS

alack11 lackadaisy20 lackaday18 waesuck16 waesucks17 welladay15 welladays16 wellanear12 wellaways18

How to use ALAS in a sentence

• Our dinner is there, sure enough, but alas! it is not yet cooked.
• Alas! Thy very gifts, which should show them the hand from whence they flow, amuse them to such a degree as to hinder them from perceiving it.
• Alas, my old blind father! The day of freedom, that thou canst not see.
• But something troubled them, something in my face and demeanour! Alas for such people! They forget that Christ comes into this world not clothed in purple.
• There be many called, but alas, how few are fit for the work! In some things hesitancy is a deadly sin.
• Alas! for the quiet hour Adah had hoped to spend, hallowed by thoughts that the dear ones at Spring Bank were mingling in the same service.
• Alas! Within the last dozen years chance took me past Maraisfontein once more.
• Notwithstanding its shallow entrance, it is the best natural port in Southeastern Africa, but now, alas! lost to the English.
• But alas! they only realized a new and a more tragical disappointment.
• Now, alas, he perceived that the embryo English lord was already looking for a means of escape, and already thought that he had found it in this unfortunate return of the father.
• But, alas! its sum total presents no satisfactory consequences.
• But alas! It is not the same with all the squadrons.
• Alas! The foot of the young master is sadly injured.
• But alas! poor souls! it would be a great consolation to them to bid their mistress farewell.
• Her deep eyes pleaded for help and mercy where there was no help, and alas! no mercy.
• But alas, her departed soul has taken its flight from this world, leaving her friends and relatives in a state of profoundest grief.
• But, alas, day by day the power of the Kingdom in human hearts is weakened, and material forces gain the ascendancy.
• Alas, there was none! Should I scream? No, that might bring out the fire-engines.
• Alas! Alas! Have I lived to witness such a scene? Am I sent hither to behold a spectacle like this? Egmont.
• Alas! nearly half of those who had seen the sun of yesterday would wake no more forever.
• Alas! how little do the miserable race to which I belong know of such a feeling.
• Alas, alas! all things earthly have an end, and at two in the morning the ball was over.
• Jerome wrote upon Matthew, upon the Epistles to the Galatians, and Titus, but, alas, very coldly.
• Why does my pen linger? Alas! it cannot trace the word farewell.
• Alas me, what shall I do? where end my life? POLYX.
• Alas! this right hand which thou hast often touched, and these knees, since in vain have I been polluted by a wicked husband, and have failed in my hopes.
• Alas! would that it were fitting me and thee to take me with thee as thy fellow-sailor.
• But, alas! that poor unfortunate personage, like Figaro, knows not to whom to listen, nor where to turn.
• Those joys, formerly disdained, were, alas! never to be restored.
• For alas! even his own fair palace was wrapped in flame.

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