Words similar to real-life

Example sentences for: real-life

How can you use “real-life” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Kincaid's favorite fictional themes show up in My Brother , and they gain from the real-life urgency.
But I imagine those views wouldn't have been complimentary either, because many of his real-life counterparts, devout worshipers of the Queen's English, have expressed varying degrees of horror on the subject.
Already, while working my head to the bone on the above examples and others too humorous to mention, I had been visited by fond memories of Jane and Goodman Ace, those masters of malapropism—though, according to an article in The New Yorker which I read years ago, Goodman was the master; Jane was a real-life Mrs. Malaprop.
Case Study Research: Design and Methods , Yin notes that case studies "are the preferred strategy when 'how' or 'why' questions are being posed, when the investigator has little control over events, and when the focus is on a contemporary phenomenon within some real-life context."
Today, in the '90s, right on schedule, fashions of the '70s are being given a nostalgic, sympathetically accurate whirl in such movies as Hilary and Jackie and The Ice Storm . A genial gaze is being cast on them just as flared trousers, square-toed shoes, and long male hair are once again looking normal in the real-life fashion universe.