hélas

[ey-lahs]

interjection

French.

1. alas!

Example Sentences

But helas, the strong data added to the hawkish Fed expectations, as it reinforced the Fed’s view that the US economy is close to a full employment and it’s time to move on.

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When André Gide was once asked to name France’s greatest poet, he said, “Hugo — hélas.”

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Hélas, the French stuff is too damp.

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French men and women have, hélas, sometimes left Leeds in the past, none more tragically than Eric Cantona, but never with such élan as awaits in le grand départ of 2014, and not in a peloton, either.

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Asked who was France's greatest poet, André Gide responded with the famously rueful answer: "Victor Hugo, hélas!"

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