Example sentences for: unreal

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

  • Though the advent of air travel negates the need for passengers to take a long sea journey, the Suez Canal is still important for cargo vessels, and watching a leviathan tanker travel sedately through the passage is an unreal experience.

  • Although Blair was described in the headline of a Jerusalem Post editorial as a "most welcome visitor" to Israel, the paper said the idea "that the Stormont wizard can perform another miracle in the Holy Land is nice, but somewhat unreal."

  • The Irish people were urged to fight, but to the Dubliners it all seemed rather unreal — in fact, while it was happening it received little public support.

  • Darger's very title draws attention to the fact that the epic takes place "in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal."

  • The helplessness of Lucia in this fantasy, and the idea of "Bacchus ravisht by his tree," may make us uneasy on feminist grounds; but the corrective reality of the last line--the physical fact of the helpless erection--corrects and undermines the imagination's unreal fantasy of domination.


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