alas
used to show sadness, pity, or regret
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,511 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 12,111 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
exclamation
- used to show sadness, pity, or regret
alas in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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But alas! my dear friend the captain soon departed this life after his arrival.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures · Daniel Defoe · Chapter 1
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Alas! this bride heard it quite unheeding, saying only, "Do what you think best, Mrs. Ferguson."
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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But alas! even crime has power to reproduce itself and create conditions favorable to its own existence.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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This was the feast; and alas! never was the want of experience more strongly felt than here.
The Station · William Carleton · Chapter 1
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Alas, I fear My inn is crowded to the very wall, Soldiers and scribes, the rich, the great, the small!
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1