true to life

phrase

: realistic and natural

The author's characters are true to life.

Examples of true to life in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Some of the sets were built to be mostly true to life — like Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s apartment at 1040 Fifth, which was based off interiors shot for a Sotheby’s catalogue of her estate. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 27 Feb. 2026

What few realize, however, is that this is true to life for actual clownfish, as well as other reef fish. — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 21 Feb. 2026

The show is undermining its own happy ending, but with intention and in a way that’s true to life. — Alison Herman, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026

Existence, too, is an endurance test, and, even for those of us with no experience of rural Hungarian customs and limited knowledge of Eastern European politics, Tarr’s granular moment-to-moment realism feels astonishingly true to life. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2026

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