How to Use surreal in a Sentence

surreal

adjective
  • The whole thing was completely surreal.
  • So, yes, just the scale of the thing is so surreal now.
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • There's no need to get out of bed when the view is this surreal.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Maybe even more surreal was the effort to then get the show back on track.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2022
  • There is always beauty to be found in the bizarre, the surreal and the weird.
    Joey Morona, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
  • And the image of the corpses thawing out in the middle of the town ice rink just looks surreal.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2024
  • And the wider region is on the edge of its seat as those surreal scenes flash on its screens.
    Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 1 Sep. 2021
  • That was the surreal scene at the Capitol one year ago this week.
    ABC News, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Seeing the boys in the dugout cheering me on was a surreal moment.
    Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 July 2017
  • The whole process of making and recording the song and video with such an icon has been very surreal.
    Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE.com, 18 July 2019
  • Seeing the hoodoos covered in a shroud of fresh snow is surreal.
    National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2019
  • In the grand scheme of coaching, this is just like a surreal moment.
    Noah Trister, baltimoresun.com, 21 Dec. 2021
  • To be a part of the crown feels both ridiculously special and surreal.
    Ruby Buddemeyer, Marie Claire, 27 July 2018
  • It’s kind of a dream and very surreal to be sitting here right now to sing this song with you.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 21 Apr. 2022
  • This was kind of a big deal, not to mention a surreal surprise.
    Graeme McMillan, WIRED, 22 Apr. 2018
  • That one still, a decade and a half later, feels surreal.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 15 July 2022
  • Just to see his face, talk to him a little bit, was surreal for us.
    Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2023
  • It’s hard to explain how surreal and thrilling this was.
    James Pogue, Outside Online, 14 May 2018
  • Still surreal to see neither team in the tourney though.
    Mike Bass, The Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Nycole: think the word that speaks to that most is: surreal.
    Rashad Grove, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The last week and a half has been surreal for this small historical town.
    Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Picking himself up and putting this thing on, the whole thing was surreal.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • To smoke the end result from such a quality pod has been surreal.
    Lindsey Bartlett, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Over the course of the evening, speakers filed in one-by-one to stand behind a lectern and face a surreal scene.
    Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The screeching halt for live events felt surreal, like a nightmare.
    Amy Shoenthal, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • Those sorts of crossovers to the real world are surreal because there’s like two versions of me.
    Laura Brounstein, Cosmopolitan, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Those are two moments that still, to this day, seem surreal.
    Susannah Hutcheson, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Like a surreal fever dream, the night felt like a strange portal into new ways of being.
    Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • To have grown up with these characters and then get to work alongside them is just surreal.
    Selena Barrientos, House Beautiful, 6 Sep. 2019
  • For Dampier, these last three weeks have been surreal, the stuff of dreams.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 11 Dec. 2021

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