Example sentences for: surreal

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

  • The eastern section of Madeira isn’t as mountainous as its center, but it has some wonderful coastal spots, a handful of attractive small towns, productive agricultural fields, and a long, surreal promontory that juts out into the Atlantic.

  • If the experiment is true, its implications are so surreal that they bear repeating: The first human embryo may have been cloned--with the aid of a cow egg.

  • Since leaks became a big issue in the Clinton sex scandal, the whole affair has taken on a surreal Alice in Wonderland quality.

  • She relies heavily--very heavily--on adverbs, which serve to pepper her noncommittal reviews with small emphatic bursts and to jack up her celebrations (from a 565-word review of Velvet Goldmine : "dazzlingly surreal," "brilliantly reimagines," "spectacularly reborn," "dramatically presided," "stunningly pretty," "fabulously charismatic," "hilariously decadent," "typically wicked").

  • Hoping to revive the taste for surreal television, ABC hired Twin Peaks creator David Lynch to pilot a noirish program called Mulholland Drive . After insisting that the director cut down on cigarette-smoking characters and shots of dog poop, the risk-averse network ditched the series and filled its time slot with another Friends clone.


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