How to Use real live in a Sentence

real live

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  • And that guitar lead is a real live wire.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Who prays to a woman, a real live person?
    Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Go ahead and go watch real live ball of me, Williams said, smiling.
    Luca Evans, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2024
  • And of course, with a real live rockstar on stage, there’s music.
    Heather Wishart-Smith, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Dozens of kids stand in line, waiting for their turn to get a selfie in a real live phone booth.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
  • And this is the first real live performance that’s ever been put out.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Nov. 2023
  • But aside from all these jars, Adam had promised over e-mail to show me some real live fairy shrimp, too.
    Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 5 May 2023
  • Maybe the Dodgers are on the verge of acquiring a real live closer.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
  • Some noted that the stuff animal looked like a real live animal from afar.
    oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2020
  • What could be more enticing that seeing a real live whale in Cincinnati?
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 25 Apr. 2021
  • And in a world where people are going to concerts and events again, there is a real live element to doing that.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Finally, on your Zoomiest days, program in some time with at least one real live human.
    Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 14 July 2022
  • Ditto the necessity of talking to a real live human who works at the hotel.
    Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 29 July 2014
  • Everyone knows that real live music is the best, and there are a myriad of free-of-charge visual content in this world now.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Instead, perhaps next season Kings fans will hear from a real live beat reporter, informing us how the team won.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2021
  • Only a real live human could do the Charleston with such fluidity.
    Lauren Goode, Wired, 20 Aug. 2021
  • No this is not a drill, tandem cycling was a real live event at the 1924 Games (and for many years after).
    Kade Krichko, Outside Online, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Is there always a real live human editing and supervising output?
    Graham Glass, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Risks notwithstanding, other artists on the bill were grateful to be performing at last with real live people in the audience.
    Blake Ells, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2021
  • In fairness to anybody that does charge tickets [for their livestream shows], pulling off a high-end livestream is probably more expensive than playing a real live concert.
    Quentin Singer, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • And that is a real live bird appearing opposite Coogan, and not some CGI creation.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024
  • In addition to tea and tiny sandwiches, you will be entertained by Gregory May — a real live clown.
    Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Many say that African countries are playing a dangerous game – quite possibly with real live ammunition.
    Paul Tilsley, Fox News, 29 July 2023
  • But every year, a large portion of his contemporary issues class was white, conservative and spoiling for a chance to debate a real live liberal.
    Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Panerai is known not only for creating durable tool watches but for letting real live adventurers break them in while engaging in real life adventures.
    Carol Besler, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Consumers can engage in personal conversations with virtual or real live experts.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Too often, theater doesn’t use that sense that this story could go anywhere or these characters could go anywhere at any time and anything could happen on that stage, with these real live human beings, at any moment.
    Liz Appel, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The 2021 show, which incorporated a host of novel aspects to make up for the lack of a real live audience, was hard to judge, as a quarantine-era one-off.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Cockrell specializes in the mental health of ultra-high net worth individuals and their families (including some real live billionaires).
    Byjenna Schnuer, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Satisfaction, not frustration, awaits those who ascribe genius insect math to a real live Mathematician.
    Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2013

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