How to Use unreal in a Sentence

unreal

adjective
  • The town seemed as unreal as a movie set.
  • The fashion model looked unreal, like a doll.
  • I think it's unreal that he survived the accident.
  • For the weight, the warmth is unreal, but the bag offers so much more.
    James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2019
  • The third time winning the Cup in six years, that's unreal.
    Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Once out of the dome, my skin was unreal — dewy, plump, flushed, and glassy as hell.
    Sable Yong, Allure, 15 Mar. 2020
  • His flow is unreal and his voice is a breath of fresh air.
    Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 4 July 2020
  • The views are unreal and there are lots of marked points along the way to stop and take photos, hike, and picnic.
    Rebecca Holland, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • There, brilliant and unreal, the city had its life, as Brownsville was ours.
    Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Even Blash talked to their coach and that’s the main key — his work ethic this year was just unreal.
    Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The first day back, the elation of people coming in the front doors was unreal.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
  • The unreal way the corona wafts around the moon in a thin flaming circle.
    Joanne Spataro, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Nowhere are things more unreal than in north-east Asia.
    The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
  • And, for that matter, things can be real and unreal at the same time.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The idea of even having a foot-by-foot space outdoors is unreal.
    Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 12 Feb. 2020
  • There is an unreal hush and a reprieve from the bustling Gold Coast just outside.
    Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The buzz has been unreal, with a dinner wait on weekends that’s about two hours.
    Tan Vinh, The Seattle Times, 28 Nov. 2018
  • The first couple weeks of last March were pretty scary and unreal.
    Bon Appétit, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Four hours one-on-one with Charlie and Tiger was just unreal.
    Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2023
  • After dark, be sure to look up: On clear nights, the stargazing can be unreal.
    Catherine Garcia, theweek, 4 June 2024
  • From the start, people sensed that there was something real and unreal about the movie.
    Rich Cohen, WSJ, 23 May 2018
  • To have a street named after me in my hometown is unreal.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 4 Apr. 2023
  • If so, a Foster — a run-and-hit stud — would be unreal value at this point.
    Terez A. Paylor, kansascity.com, 26 Apr. 2017
  • The whimsical look was styled by Jeremy Haynes who made the singer look unreal in that dress.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 22 Jan. 2024
  • There is an unreal pressure on everyone to be the first on a trend.
    Abhinav Girdhar, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • Maybe the score was inevitable even with the crowd — Rodgers is playing at an unreal level.
    Luke Johnson, NOLA.com, 29 Sep. 2020
  • In time, the dusty flatlands of the Panhandle give way to the unreal landscape of the American West.
    Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2020
  • But after 70 pages, the story takes a hard turn into the unreal.
    Nicholas Mancusi, Time, 13 June 2019
  • The question of which of them represents the real and which of them represents the unreal — which of them is the model village and which is the real thing — is one the movie never bothers to answer.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The camera flash is bouncing off a large mirror above them, giving an aura—an electric saintliness—to figures who seem to float somewhere between the real and the unreal.
    Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024

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