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How to use alack in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word alack? Here are some examples.

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Alas, and alack, I was a few seconds too late and I will miss Percy a great deal.
I'd like to celebrate some of the salient contributors to our durance and, alack, I'm sure to forget or miss mentioning some, and for that, I apologize in advance.
After a series of close range volleys, every conceivable action was taken to rally the men but, alack, to no avail.
Alas and alack, the report hasn't seemed to capture anyone's imagination, if the Sun's letters page is any indication, and maybe that shouldn't come as a surprise.
Gibbons excels through riveting writing and alack of fear which leaves him willing to tackle any subject head on and with brutal honesty.
But where, alack, is Bewick To tell the meaning now?
There wasn't alack of effort at Southampton,but we have got to be a lot cleverer and a lot cuter when we haven't got theball.
I don't thinkit's alack of fitness,I think it's laziness at times.
I believe the underlying reason is alack of leadership out on the pitch.
Professor Richards said the post code lottery existed not because of a lack of funding to buy the drugs,but because of alack of pharmacists,doctors,or facilities.
Alack of appropriate support mechanisms can serve as a barrier to intersectoral action.
Alack of fresh faces and a chronic shortage of midfield flair has added to the malaise.
If the scorn of your bright eyne Have power to raise such love in mine, Alack, in me what strange effect Would they work in mild aspect?
Examples from Classical Literature
My stick lay on the floor, where I had dropped it the morning before, and, alack!
Whatever else there might be alack with me, there was never a lack of appetite.
He came to see us once or twice in Russell Square, but, alack!
With the foils I But, alas and alack, you care not for tales of that sort.
On hearing that everything was as it should be, I went to bed, but, alack!
Alack and alas that ever I should have been fool enough to trust him!
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