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Example sentences for "real"

Lexicographically close words:
reaffirmed; reaffirming; reaffirms; reagent; reagents; reales; realest; realgar; reali; realidad
  1. He was so real accommodating, and so modest-like and simple in his last moments.

  2. Which is to say, we shall lose the company of one who could give more real "tone" to celestial society than any other contribution Brooklyn could furnish.

  3. Shall I tell the real reason why I have unintentionally succeeded in fooling so many people?

  4. Here's a nice piece--if she likes the real red.

  5. He could not tell her his real object in coming, nor in avoiding the two proprietors, who had watched him with suspicion from the first.

  6. Do you know, this is the first real chance you've ever given me to talk to you?

  7. All the real things of this world, cities and schooners and houses on stilts and long reaches of blue water, had slipped back into the dim land of dreams.

  8. Unless we take as real what the shipmen of Hudson's time took as real, we not only miss the strong romance which was so large a part of their life, but we go wide of understanding the brave spirit in which their exploring work was done.

  9. Mr. Slattery, coming abruptly to the real point, as he perceived the other was going to run again.

  10. Sleep could hardly be said to have visited his eyelids, for though after he cast himself down to rest he had dozed from time to time, yet agitating thoughts continually returned and deprived him of all real repose.

  11. A hesitation had come upon Mr. Wittingham while he spoke; his voice shook, his lip quivered, his tall frame was terribly agitated; and his son attributed all these external signs of emotion to a very different cause from the real one.

  12. At last there was real astonishment in his tone.

  13. Mrs. Trap said he was in the real estate line.

  14. The real estate agent had evidently been taking a look around before entering into his mysterious calculations in the garden.

  15. One day appearing as a real estate agent, another as a burglar and a third, as a street peddler!

  16. But when we had finished he said, "I felt there was something suspicious about that real estate agent when you first mentioned him.

  17. For the first time I had had a glimpse of the real person behind the mask of severity she habitually wore.

  18. You heard what Hamish said, didn't you, about Bangs--that his real name might be something else?

  19. She said she wanted Sandra to have a place to come to that she'd feel was a real home.

  20. Hurriedly skimming through the rest of my letter--leaving the real reading of it till bedtime--I followed Eve across the yard.

  21. You see, the real estate agent locked us in.

  22. And no doubt that isn't his real name anyway!

  23. Well that's apt to be the way things peter out in real life, you know," she said.

  24. Let’s make it a real party,” said Patty, “with a dance afterward.

  25. I mean a real homelike sort of a place,—not the institution usually founded for such a purpose.

  26. You have none of you noticed the real sentiment, the reason for the gift.

  27. Don’t you want to adopt a baby girl, a real Wonder-Child, all big, dark eyes and curly hair and the sweetest little hands and feet?

  28. The one I mean to give her is an old Dutch one of real value.

  29. Beware of a dark lady——” “Now I know you’re the real thing!

  30. I mean in a real opera, on the real stage.

  31. It is made of birch bark in neat pattern, and decorated with real pine cones, securely glued on.

  32. You see it lacks the thrill of a real out-and-out elopement, because people know about it.

  33. Only foolish gifts had been looked for and this was worthy of real praise.

  34. Like real religion, it has found itself in an enemy's land.

  35. Swift and Chatterton, with all their vast talents, wanted, we think, the fine differentia, and the genial element of real poetic genius.

  36. She seemed anxious to avail herself of such an opportunity, and was thus entirely deceived as to the real purpose of the visit which she was induced to make.

  37. She knew more as to real life than he did.

  38. But the real cause is supposed to be the absolute impossibility of making the revenue of the island adequate to meet the constantly increasing demands of the mother country.

  39. Secondly, real genius has not always received its due meed from the world.

  40. Bouer lived long enough to learn my real character, and enjoy the fruits of his own judgment.

  41. And first, some of the most flagrantly bad of literary men have had no real pretensions to genius.

  42. But I was ignorant of the real condition of his mind, and dealt with him as I should have dealt with a responsible being.

  43. He saw that if a man sets so low a mark, and attains it by the aid of a craven rectitude and animal cunning, he will miss the real glory and crown of life, which by no means implies victory.

  44. They were real chums, telling each other their grievances and sharing a singularly identical opinion of the Old Man's fitness for his job.

  45. The people in books were quite as real to her as the people around her.

  46. She had never had any real confidence in any other form of information.

  47. And while he appreciated it, of course, there was no real need for Mr. Spokesly to remain on the bridge after he had been relieved.

  48. He had also a vague, illogical notion that, after all, he was not contemplating any real infidelity to Ada since he fully intended to return to her.

  49. He took no real pleasure in speaking of himself as a promised man even to a married woman.

  50. And they can do all this, mark, without having any real experience of what we call life.

  51. Mr. Spokesly felt better at once, for alcohol had no real hold upon his system.

  52. Only a month ago a grand piano had been put in, and she had had the dining-room suite reupholstered in real pigskin.

  53. The basis of romantic adventure is character, and a man's real character is sometimes overlaid with curious artificial ornaments.

  54. They have the high-binder's passion for getting something for nothing, his dislike to real work.

  55. Perhaps it was not so much love of country as personal destiny, for Mr. Spokesly had a very real belief in his destiny.

  56. Without being in any way insincere, it gave one the illusion that it was fitted on over his real face.

  57. To her they were men as real as her husband and Mr. Spokesly himself.

  58. Then my friend, my only real pal, was going crazy--how that thought tortured me.

  59. It takes real intelligence to write something that is not known to the general populace.

  60. In fact, the whole monoplane was so light and frail as to give one the idea of a rather large model, instead of a real craft, intended for service.

  61. For several days after the first real trial of his sky racer Tom was busy going over the Humming-Bird, making slight changes here and there.

  62. We'll have a real speed test to-morrow," Tom announced to Mr. Damon one night.

  63. But I almost forgot the real object of my trip here.

  64. But there is excitement in New York; there is real life in any large city, and the free-and-easy career one can run there is equal to the one the plains afford.

  65. Would it be altogether wise to acquaint her with the real secret of his mission?

  66. If marriage befall him, it is a real affliction, involving others as well as himself.

  67. If real evils multiply so that a young man finds he cannot remain in his father's house, without suffering not only in his feelings, but permanently in his temper and disposition, I will not say that it is never best to leave it.

  68. Such a man has no real cares--no troubles; and this is the sort of life I have led.

  69. Let him observe, in short, the whole of their demeanor, the real mutual affection evinced, not in words, but in unequivocal deeds.

  70. Too much of real delicacy can never be inculcated; but in our early management, we seem to implant the false, instead of the true.

  71. It is a great misfortune of the present day, that almost every one is, by his own estimate, raised above his real state of life.

  72. To such beings a lawsuit is a luxury, instead of being regarded as a source of anxiety, and a real scourge.

  73. I am pretty well convinced, however, that they are of little real use to him who is determined to eat his bread 'in the sweat of his face,' according to the Divine appointment.

  74. Now supposing you to have a fortune, even beyond your actual wants, would not the money which you might save in this way, be very well applied in acts of real benevolence?

  75. Many people who, in other respects, pass for excellent, do not hesitate to take sides on almost all occasions, whether they know much about the real merits of the case or not.

  76. At this moment time is precious if the real criminal is to be caught at all.

  77. This and not the real reason was given, coupled of course, with the doctor's dictum.

  78. This seemed to wake me, and it was so real that I went out to see-- nothing.

  79. In his sonnets, which hint his personal cast if anything does, there is no real trace of religious creed or feeling.

  80. It remains an open question whether personal enmity on the part of the prosecuting official [249] or a real belief that he had uttered blasphemies against Jesus or Mary was the determining force, or whether even less motive sufficed.

  81. It needed real freethinking, then, to produce such doctrine in the days of the Rye House Plot.

  82. This faith has no real interest for Spirit.

  83. Many scholars who continue to hold by the historicity of Jesus have since recognized that the Sermon is no real discourse, but a compilation of gnomic sayings or maxims previously current in Jewish literature.

  84. The method is, to accept as real occurrences all the non-miraculous episodes, and to explain them by a general theory.

  85. Pope did not know Bolingbroke's real opinions; but Pope's untruthfulness was such as to discredit such a statement.

  86. Brett of Lahore, The Philosophy of Gassendi, 1908--a real contribution to the history of philosophy.

  87. The writers were the real authors" [1340]--a declaration not to be counterbalanced by further generalities about actual divine influence.

  88. I lose a little energy there, but not a real fraction.

  89. I think they mean us no real harm, Thart Kralt.

  90. In a six-man cruiser, his real work in the Interplanetary Patrol had started.

  91. It will take all that time, and more for real refitting of the IP ships.

  92. The IP Appropriations Board won't give you what you need, Commander, for real improvements on the IP ships?

  93. Inside, the real apparatus was arranged around the little pool of mercury.

  94. To be able to make those tremendous hops, light-years in length, they needed a real store of energy.

  95. The shrilly screaming motor stopped dead instantly, as though it had had no real momentum, or had been inertialess.

  96. You ask him--he's going to make his eternal fortune yet by striking a real bed of jovium, and then he'll retire.

  97. Davis said, the real bargain was that he should during the whole of the Captain’s life attend to his teeth, and supply him with new ones from time to time.

  98. To the plaintiff the occasion was a most sacred one, and no one had a right to intrude unless invited, or because of some real and pressing necessity which it is not pretended existed in this case.

  99. He was not to blame for the mixing, the real cause of the injury [480].

  100. And so we speak of countries or persons as being in a false position, when they take up a course of policy, or assume a profession, inconsistent with their natural interests or real character.

  101. When an idea, whether real or not, is of a nature to arrest and possess the mind, it may be said to have life, that is, to live in the mind which is its recipient.

  102. On the other hand, when the dissimulation of Augustus was exchanged for the ostentation of Dioclesian, the real alteration of constitution was trivial, but the appearance of change was great.

  103. In truth, scanty as the Ante-nicene notices may be of the Papal Supremacy, they are both more numerous and more definite than the adducible testimonies in favour of the Real Presence.

  104. You know just the way they do in the real circus.

  105. And then they both ran over to her and kissed her, glad of an excuse to show their real feelings.

  106. A whooping, variegated mob with no more clothes than the paint gave it fell into the corral and then real fun began.

  107. Even Marshal Nix never knew the real source of much information which reached his office.

  108. The face of nature thus becomes alive and full of expression, and the conception of its change becomes so real that one almost expects to see the change in successive visits to one place.

  109. From a real knowledge of these few types and their life history it is easy to advance in school days or afterwards to a rational understanding of a great number of forms.

  110. Having grown up upon it, I called it a hilly country, in accordance with the geographic lessons of my school days, and continued to do so for twenty years or more, until on opening my eyes its real form was perceived.

  111. At one time the shore line may be far within the borders of the continent, as we have seen was once the case upon our Pacific coast; at another time, if the land should rise, the shore line might coincide with the real border of the continent.

  112. These volcanoes are in no way related to real volcanoes except in shape, for water and mud, instead of fire and lava, have been concerned in their building.

  113. The Panamint Range looks down upon Death Valley with a bold and almost impassable front, while still other broad deserts lie between this range and the real Sierras.

  114. By the real border of the continent we mean the line along which the earth slopes down steeply to the abysmal depths of the ocean.

  115. That this is the real belief of nearly every one of us, and has always been so, our judgment of the conduct of individuals proves.

  116. We come back then to the real thought, which is so clouded by that technical expression.

  117. The editor of a real magazine that pays genuine money for stories?

  118. Do you think," said Lucile in real consternation, "that I would dare beard that lion of an editor in his den?

  119. Regular fatherly letter, but he's a dear and the check is real money.

  120. But Lucile's faith in her product, her first real "creation," was not to be daunted.

  121. Motors are a real bother," she said, returning to her original subject.

  122. If only I could write a real story that would get into print, or discover some new chemical combination that would do things, that would be glorious.

  123. I wish I could write a story--a real story.

  124. I've traveled on the Arctic and Pacific, real oceans, and come here and have a mere lake kick up such a rumpus!

  125. Here's one that has a real gurgly sound when you shake it," said Lucile, holding a can to her ear and shaking hard.

  126. The earlier part of the festival was for dramatic interest, and the real object was the union of Persephone with Bacchus.

  127. With earth worship, then, there was mother worship, and the term "Mother Earth" had a very real significance.


  128. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "real" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolute; actual; aliquot; appreciable; arithmetical; ascertained; attested; authentic; authenticated; awfully; axiomatic; candid; certain; certified; concrete; confirmed; decimal; definitive; demonstrable; determined; differential; digital; documentary; effective; effectual; established; even; exceedingly; exponential; factual; feudal; figurative; finite; flesh; fraction; gentry; genuine; good; hard; historical; honest; imaginary; implicit; impossible; inartificial; incontestable; incontrovertible; indisputable; indubitable; infinite; infinity; integer; integral; intrinsic; irrational; irrefutable; just; lawful; legitimate; lifelike; literal; live; logarithmic; material; mightily; mighty; natural; naturalistic; negative; numeric; numerical; odd; ordinal; original; pair; palpable; physical; positive; possible; powerfully; pretty; prime; provable; proved; pukka; pure; quite; rational; real; realistic; really; reciprocal; right; rightful; sensible; simple; sincere; solid; sterling; substantial; substantiated; substantive; surd; sure; tangible; terribly; terrifically; transcendental; true; truthful; unadulterated; unaffected; unanswerable; unassuming; uncolored; undemonstrative; undeniable; undesigning; undisguised; undistorted; undoubted; unexaggerated; unflattering; unimagined; unimpeachable; unqualified; unquestionable; unromantic; unvarnished; validated; veracious; verbal; verbatim; veridical; verifiable; verified; veritable; very; implicit; impossible; inartificial; incontestable; incontrovertible; indisputable; indubitable; infinite; infinity; integer; integral; intrinsic; irrational; irrefutable; just; lawful; legitimate; lifelike; literal; live; logarithmic; material; mightily; mighty; natural; naturalistic; negative; numeric; numerical; odd; ordinal; original; pair; palpable; physical; positive; possible; powerfully; pretty; prime; provable; proved; pukka; pure; quite; rational; real; realistic; really; reciprocal; right; rightful; sensible; simple; sincere; solid; sterling; substantial; substantiated; substantive; surd; sure; tangible; terribly; terrifically; transcendental; true; truthful; unadulterated; unaffected; unanswerable; unassuming; uncolored; undemonstrative; undeniable; undesigning; undisguised; undistorted; undoubted; unexaggerated; unflattering; unimagined; unimpeachable; unqualified; unquestionable; unromantic; unvarnished; validated; veracious; verbal; verbatim; veridical; verifiable; verified; veritable; very


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    real circus; real gentleman; real importance; real life; real mother; real nice; real object; real objects; real princess; real things; real value; realised that; reality itself; realize the; realized that; really believe; really couldn; really didn; really don; really exist; really great; really loved; really must; really thought; really very; really was