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:

The images we see or hear described in the movie are vaguely countercultural (a Santa-with-an-erection cartoon), not sick ( Hustler 's real-life jokes about Betty Ford's mastectomy); they are soft-core (centerfold-style nudes), not hard-core (the pictorial of a woman gagged and bound on the top of a car).
Whereas excellent earlier studies show a quantitative relationship between the ADI and transcript abundance [ 2, 3], the experimental design of this study differs significantly from those described in earlier publications in order to assess the system's capabilities under conditions closer to real-life experiments.
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.
Just one real-life example:
Those longing, in this suddenly post-Lewinsky era, for more real-life melodrama to watch on television have good news: This third week of sweeps brings plenty of docudramas (one starring Lauren Bacall) and jazzed-up documentaries to slake our thirst for TV-enhanced reality.