How to Use unrealistic in a Sentence

unrealistic

adjective

• The dialogue in the movie was unrealistic.
• It's unrealistic to expect so much.
• The kind of hope too unrealistic most of the last decade.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
• The World Cup is a grind, and to expect even the world’s No. 1 team to be at its peak in every game over five weeks is simply unrealistic.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
• This doesn’t mean Knowles wants shows to be unrealistic.
  — Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• In this version of the NBA, a four-year plan for jumping from the bottom to the top is wildly ambitious, if not unrealistic.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Apr. 2023
• To hear Bob Iger say that our demands for a living wage are unrealistic?
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 9 Aug. 2023
• Perhaps the most unrealistic part of the show is how quickly the fungus overtakes the world, experts suggest.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
• In China, as in much of Asia and the rest of the world, social media is awash with unhealthy and unrealistic trends promoting extreme weight loss.
  — Candice Zhu, CNN, 17 June 2023
• Mace also set the highly unrealistic goal of filing 25 new bills per year.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
• Share stories about the lack of support, guidance and feedback, along with the push for putting in long hours and being given unrealistic deadlines.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Many had been on the receiving end of his wrath in his desperate unrealistic attempt to cling to power.
  — Geoff Duncan, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• Many students thought that the school wouldn’t actually do it—and that stripping phones from teens was unrealistic.
  — Julie Jargon, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2022
• But the world has made little progress toward that goal, which many experts believe is unrealistic.
  — Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• The image of Putin in a jail cell, for example, includes strangely twisted metal bars and an unrealistic depth of field, O'Brien said.
  — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
• But perhaps the most unrealistic thing about the show—besides the fact that no one ever seems to get stuck in traffic, despite constantly taking taxis—was the lack of uniform checks.
  — Abrigail Williams, Vogue, 18 Nov. 2023
• Since then, the singer spoke out about plastic surgery and the unrealistic expectations placed on women to bounce back after giving birth.
  — Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
• At the time, Mr. Duress’s plans for the future consisted of elaborate ideas for con jobs that his friends tended to laugh off as unrealistic, Ms. Holmes said in a phone interview.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• But assuming that someone who comes from the same program with all the talent in the world can come to Columbus and have a significant impact isn’t so unrealistic.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 28 Oct. 2022
• The challenge: How to avoid a free-for-all involving an unrealistic number of candidates?
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
• And comparisons to sports established in the first half of the 20th century are simply unrealistic.
  — WIRED, 13 Jan. 2023
• The task is finding a path between unrealistic visions of an ideal life and a kind of detachment or acceptance.
  — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2022
• But automakers and dealers protested that those goals were unrealistic, given that EVs still account for less than 10% of sales.
  — Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
• Yet in both the standings and available talent, the Sox aren’t so far behind other flawed American League contenders as to make a run at the postseason unrealistic.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
• The tone implied that people who had fallen in love with tiny houses had been fooled by an unrealistic fantasy, and had been forced to slink back to a mainstream, normal-size lifestyle.
  — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2023
• His most recent was a moderately unrealistic back-heeled assist in Napoli’s win against Eintracht Frankfurt in the first leg of its last 16 tie.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• Critics said the clean energy goals are unrealistic and costs could top $1 trillion.
  — John Woolfolk, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
• Expecting volunteers to perform at the same scale as a centralized platform is unrealistic, to say the least.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2022
• This lack of contact, at times, creates bad habits and unrealistic timing with receivers and overall footwork.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2022
• When the full weight of our situation sinks in, measures that may appear unrealistic at present, could rapidly gain support.
  — Time, 20 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024