How to Use real in a Sentence

real

1 of 3 adjective

• The battle scenes in the movie seemed very real to me.
• The movie is based on real events.
• The team has a real chance at winning.
• What is his real name?
• He's always daydreaming and seems to be out of touch with the real world.
• He has no real power; he is just a figurehead.
• The actor looks taller on TV than he does in real life.
• In real life, relationships are not perfect.
• There is a very real possibility that we will be moving to Maine.
• The detective Sherlock Holmes is not a real person.
• Holst: The real turning point was a study by Michael Nauck in 1993.
  — WIRED, 12 June 2023
• There were some real set pieces on the All in the Family set.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Getting rid of them has proved to be the real challenge.
  — Sean Greene, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
• So, there's this one group that has been a real mover in the MDMA research space.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 12 June 2023
• 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
• But man, getting in those moments, that's where the real life is.
  — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2024
• But the real thorn in the system is the state of the U.K.’s independent film sector.
  — Angus Finney, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
• Never mind that in a real game, Wilson night have been sacked.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
• Allow this to be a real end to the relationship and block him.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• By the 1950s, traffic on Fort Worth’s west side was becoming a real headache.
  — Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
• To put it simply, the press has completely missed the real story.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• The real attractions, though (aside from the price), are the speed and clutter-free interface.
  — Stackcommerce Team, PCMAG, 27 Jan. 2024
• Biggie, whose real name was Christopher Wallace, died in the arms of one of Combs' bodyguards.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 9 Apr. 2024
• For the first time, the real life couple played a fake couple in the 2016 comedy, The Intervention.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 June 2023
• 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
• Sometimes Johnson can throw some real darts inside the red zone.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 19 Aug. 2023

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real

2 of 3 adverb

• We had a real good time.
• We went to bed real late.
• The water is real warm.
• Awash in Guns:'It’s real easy to get a gun’ in Louisville.
  — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 19 Jan. 2023
• There is, of course, a real easy way to avoid all this angst: Win.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
• 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
• Not real tough to connect the dots when there are so few dots.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
• Alex has never been the crier, but she's been real weepy since that last day.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 26 May 2023
• Either way, even Evans agrees, the voice was real weird.
  — Amy Chozick, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
• Try this out: Blow up a balloon and tie it off real tight.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Joey, real quick, what has been the GOP response to the President's speech?
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2022
• Then Scottie falls for Madeleine; then tragedy strikes; then things get real weird.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Talking real, being from New York, and talking about what the city meant to him.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2023
• One of those two movies is poised to start collecting awards points real soon.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• To borrow from Weezy’s protégé, the VMAs went from zero to 100 real quick.
  — Vulture, 13 Sep. 2023
• But the Appalachian one … the Appalachian one seems to me to have a real strong emotion through it.
  — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 19 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Also Abe Lincoln, but talkin’ like a real wise guy over here.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2023
• The power of Tom Cruise going real fast in a fighter jet compels you!
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Planes go real fast, so the turnaround is not impossible, but the doesn’t appear to be in the stars this weekend.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 6 Sep. 2023
• That’s real big in the Sikh temples, that there’s a community kitchen.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 30 June 2022
• But, just being real here, none of this guarantees that.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• And Marvel certainly has ways to age him up real fast if needed.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 2 Aug. 2022
• 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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real

3 of 3 noun

• All that could disperse in the wind brought into the real on the body.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 11 June 2021
• Your friends could be shocked to see the real you today.
  — Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2022
• There was no statute passed to make the gains of the Fifteenth Amendment real.
  — John Blake, CNN, 22 Jan. 2022
• The Brazilian real is up 13% against the U.S. dollar year to date.
  — Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 24 May 2022
• The British pound, Turkish lira and Brazilian real, to name a few.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2020
• Brazil planned to launch a digital real this year but has pushed back its rollout to 2024.
  — WIRED, 8 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The Brazilian real rose 5% versus the dollar Monday on hopes of a more balanced government.
  — Paulo Trevisani, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2022
• Triangle Productions’ founder Don Horn directs the master class that attempts to divine the real from the fake.
  — oregonlive, 12 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Hollywood is a literal industry that made magic real and Napoleon (in this movie) hot.
  — Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
• 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
• On paper, many climates are so attractive that the real is found most disappointing.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The real has also come under pressure after being one of 2022’s best-performing currencies.
  — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 28 May 2024