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:

However, a typical run with real-life data will take several hours on a desktop computer.
(Note: "Life and Art" is an occasional column that compares fiction, in various media, with the real-life facts it is ostensibly based on.)
The Nation's Newspaper adds a further shocker to this real-life O. Henry tale: the couple was killed in a July 4th traffic accident.
The film is "simpatico enough to make the less-than-cutting-edge nature" of the work enjoyable (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ), but "it's unfortunate that what we are given is so standardized and generic" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (Click here to read a review of the best-selling novel by Mona Simpson the film is based on and to read Slate 's "Chatterbox" on a real-life character from the book.)
(Note: "Life and Art" is an occasional column that compares fiction, in various media, with the real-life facts on which it is ostensibly based.)