How to Use real in a Sentence
- He's always daydreaming and seems to be out of touch with the real world.
- The actor looks taller on TV than he does in real life.
- There is a very real possibility that we will be moving to Maine.
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Holst: The real turning point was a study by Michael Nauck in 1993.
—WIRED, 12 June 2023
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There were some real set pieces on the All in the Family set.
—Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2024
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The date and cause of death for the young star, real name Claire Eileen Qi Hope, has not yet been revealed.
—Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
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Getting rid of them has proved to be the real challenge.
—Sean Greene, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
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So, there's this one group that has been a real mover in the MDMA research space.
—Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 12 June 2023
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Too Short now has a lot of records with real longevity, and a rich legacy to rest on.
—Tom Breihan, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
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But man, getting in those moments, that's where the real life is.
—Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2024
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But the real thorn in the system is the state of the U.K.’s independent film sector.
—Angus Finney, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
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Never mind that in a real game, Wilson night have been sacked.
—Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
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Allow this to be a real end to the relationship and block him.
—Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
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And do not click on any unknown links that can be bogus ones mirroring the look and feel of the real Airbnb.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 17 July 2023
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Meanwhile, Crystal gets the chance to become a real wrestler as the rest of the event descends into chaos.
—Milan Polk, Men's Health, 9 Aug. 2023
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But the real star of the show here is the Z-series lens system with its wider base mount, which allows more light to the corners of the sensors.
—Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2023
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By the 1950s, traffic on Fort Worth’s west side was becoming a real headache.
—Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
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To put it simply, the press has completely missed the real story.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
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The real attractions, though (aside from the price), are the speed and clutter-free interface.
—Stackcommerce Team, PCMAG, 27 Jan. 2024
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Biggie, whose real name was Christopher Wallace, died in the arms of one of Combs' bodyguards.
—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 9 Apr. 2024
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For the first time, the real life couple played a fake couple in the 2016 comedy, The Intervention.
—Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 June 2023
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The editing was also choppy at times and there seemed no real flow to the season in terms of tribe dynamics.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 May 2023
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Sometimes Johnson can throw some real darts inside the red zone.
—Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 19 Aug. 2023
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Both had seen strife and happiness, which led them to have a real connection.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 16 Mar. 2024
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Part of her intention was to correct the record on who the first real male cheerleaders were at a Super Bowl.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
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Sydney has not just the beaches and water but is also a real global city.
—Will Gluck, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2023
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There is a real human version of Alex who’s out there wandering the streets somewhere.
—WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
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That’s been a real boon for people looking for places to camp that are further afield from their usual stomping grounds.
—Laura Lancaster, Outdoor Life, 19 Oct. 2023
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The real question is what Trump’s rivals for the 2024 nomination will do.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 12 June 2023
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Without time to train and build a real boy band from scratch, Kotecha and some of his friends and collaborators rounded out the second and backing vocals for August Moon.
—Cat Cardenas, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 May 2024
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Awash in Guns:'It’s real easy to get a gun’ in Louisville.
—Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 19 Jan. 2023
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There is, of course, a real easy way to avoid all this angst: Win.
—Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
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So, even after the team got one for the road in 2022, that dream… fell apart real quick.
—Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2023
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Not real tough to connect the dots when there are so few dots.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
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Alex has never been the crier, but she's been real weepy since that last day.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 26 May 2023
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Either way, even Evans agrees, the voice was real weird.
—Amy Chozick, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
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Try this out: Blow up a balloon and tie it off real tight.
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2024
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So the city's not real thrilled with it, but this is all governed at the state level.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2023
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Joey, real quick, what has been the GOP response to the President's speech?
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2022
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Then Scottie falls for Madeleine; then tragedy strikes; then things get real weird.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
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My skin feels so moisturized and its not greasy and leaves the face feeling real nice and soft.
—Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Jan. 2023
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Talking real, being from New York, and talking about what the city meant to him.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2023
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One of those two movies is poised to start collecting awards points real soon.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2023
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Think about swimming in a lake in the summer—take a dive and the warm water gets real cold real quick.
—WIRED, 8 Nov. 2023
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Before putting it in your cart, look around real fast and, when no one is looking, sniff that kale.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2023
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But this two ace thing is the real longshot, as the odds of a player making two holes-in-one in the same round are 67 million to 1.
—Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 21 Aug. 2023
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To borrow from Weezy’s protégé, the VMAs went from zero to 100 real quick.
—Vulture, 13 Sep. 2023
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But the Appalachian one … the Appalachian one seems to me to have a real strong emotion through it.
—Matt Thompson, SPIN, 19 Oct. 2023
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Against odds that probably weren't real good, he's been able to defy all of that.
—Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 16 Dec. 2022
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Also Abe Lincoln, but talkin’ like a real wise guy over here.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2023
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The power of Tom Cruise going real fast in a fighter jet compels you!
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022
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There’s one white person on the entire thing, and there’s a real clear reason why that person’s track came on.
—Vulture, 14 Feb. 2023
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Planes go real fast, so the turnaround is not impossible, but the doesn’t appear to be in the stars this weekend.
—Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 6 Sep. 2023
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That’s real big in the Sikh temples, that there’s a community kitchen.
—John Benson, cleveland, 30 June 2022
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But, just being real here, none of this guarantees that.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
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And Marvel certainly has ways to age him up real fast if needed.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 2 Aug. 2022
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Fans of Game of Thrones or Star Wars can relate, as the details that make the world seem real have created fandoms spanning decades.
—Brian Childs, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2023
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Furthermore, an early leak of Top Thrill 2 that turned out to be real put a damper on the Tuesday announcement.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 4 Aug. 2023
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That first Johnnie Walker slides down real easy-like, and your cohort is raging around you for a second round.
—Guy Martin, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
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What’s more, the fact that the games are super neatly categorized and organized further makes finding your favorite games real easy.
—Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
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All that could disperse in the wind brought into the real on the body.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 11 June 2021
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Your friends could be shocked to see the real you today.
—Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2022
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There was no statute passed to make the gains of the Fifteenth Amendment real.
—John Blake, CNN, 22 Jan. 2022
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The Brazilian real is up 13% against the U.S. dollar year to date.
—Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 24 May 2022
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The British pound, Turkish lira and Brazilian real, to name a few.
—Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2020
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Brazil planned to launch a digital real this year but has pushed back its rollout to 2024.
—WIRED, 8 Nov. 2022
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At the end of every play in the Dublin Trilogy, the stage has pushed beyond the real into a dense and resonant space of metaphor.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2023
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The script detailed how Nolan planned to make the conceptual physics real for an audience through use of image and sound.
—Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 July 2023
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As in those stories, the fantastical is a way to process the real in a tale in which the hero’s journey is a way to come to terms with a pain that is both personal and national.
—Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
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The real has outpaced all of its developing peers this year even as Covid-19 cases remain at record highs.
—Maria Elena Vizcaino, Fortune, 5 July 2021
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The Brazilian real rose 5% versus the dollar Monday on hopes of a more balanced government.
—Paulo Trevisani, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2022
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Triangle Productions’ founder Don Horn directs the master class that attempts to divine the real from the fake.
—oregonlive, 12 Jan. 2022
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Also considered in the faux vs. real is the signature Tiffany light operations: a turn paddle knob on the base or a pull chain on the sockets to access the light.
—Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 1 Apr. 2021
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The Brazilian real, one of the few currencies to have strengthened against the dollar this year, is losing some steam ahead of Sunday's presidential election.
—Paulo Trevisani, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
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Miami author Karen Russell is known for blending the real with the surreal and finding metaphors in strange places, so expect a strange journey.
—Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Sep. 2020
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Hollywood is a literal industry that made magic real and Napoleon (in this movie) hot.
—Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
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Also among the newly available currencies are the Mexican peso and Brazilian real, which are used by the two largest economies in Latin America.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 21 June 2023
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On paper, many climates are so attractive that the real is found most disappointing.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
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Another example of Joyce fixing the real to the literary by a transgressive use of waste matter.
—Anne Enright, The New York Review of Books, 5 Jan. 2022
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To capture the real without the protagonists being ill at ease and without the stress of a crew’s schedule, Steven filmed all by himself, making several long stays in his childhood home.
—Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 13 Apr. 2022
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The dollar is clobbering other currencies as well, including the Brazilian real, the South Korean won and the Tunisian dinar.
—Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
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The horror film is about a brother-sister team of scammers who fake paranormal encounters to score cash—that is, until a job at a haunted county estate turns very, scary real.
—Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 21 Aug. 2023
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For fashion designers and brands, learning to blend the real with the unreal is going to become a necessary skill in order to transition into the future.
—Brandon Ginsberg, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2021
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The nation’s Selic rate offers a premium of 875 basis points over the Fed’s benchmark, a sizable cushion to offset any potential weakness in the Brazilian real.
—Marcus Wong, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2023
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And also perhaps to register that the novelist who writes, of all outrageous things, fiction about the Holocaust cannot have a comfortable and straightforward relation to the real.
—Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2021
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Also a guidebook for aspiring independent artists, Bowen gives readers the real on the hardships and mistreatment that women endure in hip-hop.
—Jaelani Turner-Williams, ELLE, 11 Aug. 2023
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In total, Neymar was handed down the maximum fine for each infraction, resulting in a total bill of 16 million Brazilian reals, or just over $3.3 million.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 5 July 2023
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The real has also come under pressure after being one of 2022’s best-performing currencies.
—Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2023
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The painting, by Jefferson Chalfant, unassumingly features two Lincoln stamps side by side, one painted, the other real.
—Maggie Cao, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2022
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Both center on adults working to support their families, one under real and the other surreal circumstances.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
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