alack
Americaninterjection
interjection
Etymology
Origin of alack
Example Sentences
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Oxford I sing, though in untutored tones, alack!
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2014
Excerpt from the latter: We're the lonely men of Harvard; Alone, alas, alone, alack, are we!
From Time Magazine Archive
But alas and alack he is stopped by a force that is driving him back, not by years but hundreds of years.
From Time Magazine Archive
The long years passed, one after another, Making older and older our Sam and his Mother; And, alas and alack, with nine of them gone, Poor Shag lay asleep again under a stone.
From Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems by Walter De la Mare
On the faith of a printer, things look very black— And what shall we do, alas! and alack!
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Philip Freneau
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