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.
• There was a real path right there.
  — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
• To me, that just felt very real.
  — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 3 Feb. 2026
• What’s the real cost to scale it?
  — Bruce Kornfeld, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• This is what makes a real spread.
  — Madhushree Basu Roy, Saveur, 30 Apr. 2026
• Small clothes moths are the real pests.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
• Was that his real face, the face that ached?
  — Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026
• But there’s no real sign of progress.
  — NPR, 7 Apr. 2026
• Wait, that’s not a real dog in the movie?
  — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2025
• But the real love takes a lot of miles, a lot of time.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 17 Feb. 2026
• The real risk is not that machines will think like us.
  — Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• That is the real stuff of life, after all.
  — Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
• Some see this as a sign there was no real standout film.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 4 June 2026
• Both real and faux flora work well for this project.
  — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
• Those are his real students in the film.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 18 June 2026
• But the real injury might have been to his pride.
  — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 17 Feb. 2026
• That said, the real story here is the suites.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2026
• The comet will be too distant for a real close-up look.
  — Andrew Jones, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• But there’s no real research to back up this claim.
  — Tabitha Britt, Flow Space, 29 Oct. 2025
• Some are racing to change this, and the scars are real.
  — Sarwant Singh, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
• Lane is a traits bet with real movement skills for his frame.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026

real

2 of 3 adverb

• We had a real good time.
• We went to bed real late.
• The water is real warm.
• But that was a real big deal at the time!
  — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 31 Mar. 2026
• Yeah, some stuff is real funky.
  — Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
• Here, step out here for us real quick.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
• Getting to know him has been real cool.
  — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
• Not real tough to connect the dots when there are so few dots.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
• An’ a chaintooth voice tolt us to skeer him real good.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
• The others are a real mixed bag.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 2 May 2026
• Growth has become the real flex.
  — Datwon Thomas, VIBE.com, 26 June 2026
• He's been real easy and agreeable.
  — Katie Mannion, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
• Alex has never been the crier, but she's been real weepy since that last day.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 26 May 2023
• Now that’s some real breaking news.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025
• That’s some real confused hater s—t.
  — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• That’s a real strong lineup, man.
  — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 22 May 2026
• For his part, Ward kept it real after the game.
  — Zak Keefer, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
• The standings got real tight down the end of the season.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 7 Dec. 2025
• That’s some Black girl stuff that goes real deep inside of me.
  — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 17 Feb. 2026
• Overall, no real good reason to pay more for the big brands.
  — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025
• That was a real critical part of the game.
  — Miami Herald, 16 Dec. 2025
• The smiles in Beijing were real enough.
  — Neil Shearing, Time, 20 May 2026
• One of those two movies is poised to start collecting awards points real soon.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2023
• And that, to me, is the real happy ending.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• That’s when his teammates did him a real solid.
  — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 20 Sep. 2025
• That's not her real name, but her story is real enough to keep me up at night.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 Feb. 2026
• And the Heat doesn’t have a real bona fide set-the-table guy for them.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2026
• 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
• That’s not a real sizable business for us.
  — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
• The ripple effect is real right now!
  — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2026

real

3 of 3 noun

• And by the way, look, the fraud's real.
  — NBC news, 11 Jan. 2026
• Cause right now your a piece of s--t for real.
  — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
• Its Orbs are meant to divine the real from the fake.
  — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
• People may just give up on trying to sort the real from the fake.
  — Nick Dothée, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2026
• All that could disperse in the wind brought into the real on the body.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 11 June 2021
• But Skylar’s been around this league a long time to know the fake from the real.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
• Lynch opened that space for me, a slit in the real, a velvet hallway with no exit.
  — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
• Buy the real, sell the virtual.
  — John Stepek, Bloomberg, 11 Feb. 2026
• But the real draw early in the day is the relative quiet.
  — Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2026
• This method keeps your story real but positions it to serve the reader.
  — Vikrant Shaurya, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• There was no statute passed to make the gains of the Fifteenth Amendment real.
  — John Blake, CNN, 22 Jan. 2022
• That was fiction, but Mason’s real.
  — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 1 May 2026
• Although the intrigue will keep you flipping pages, for me, the seed bank is the star that made the climate crisis real.
  — Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2025
• Brazil planned to launch a digital real this year but has pushed back its rollout to 2024.
  — WIRED, 8 Nov. 2022
• One fictional and the other real, the drug lords look nonchalant.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2025
• But there’s one woman on the show who makes the surreal real, and that’s Sarah Paulson.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
• The British pound, Turkish lira and Brazilian real, to name a few.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2020
• Let facts inform your decision; ignore claims or twisted logic and drill down to the real real.
  — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 19 Jan. 2026
• Let facts inform your decision, ignore claims or twisted logic and drill down to the real real.
  — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 19 Jan. 2026
• On paper, many climates are so attractive that the real is found most disappointing.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
• Lamar Jackson has Baltimore on a five-game win streak and playoff-chasing for real.
  — Miami Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
• Man Steph doesn’t deserve the embarrassment [for real].
  — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• For industrial leaders, the task is to lead the sequence of decisions that makes that future real.
  — Arungalai Anbarasu, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• 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
• Hollywood is a literal industry that made magic real and Napoleon (in this movie) hot.
  — Vulture, 7 Nov. 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
• 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
• This made everyone calm down, and immediately step into a space where there was no longer any border between the divine and the human real.
  — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
• 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
• Our phones are turning into pocket-size casinos, offering windowless retreats from the real.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2025