How to use "real" in a sentence

In fact, I don't know what is real and what isn't anymore

To me, they are real

I can't believe it! It doesn't seem real

"This is my real enemy

And for the first time ever, I knew that I was a real idiot.

A lot of people say that they married an idiot, but they don't know what it's like to marry a real one

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.

Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it? Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from - will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake?

'You don't even know my real name,' he said very quietly

'You never knew my real name,' Meltham told him

'You are seeing me under my real name now for the first time

The woman said her name was Mary Ann Kelly, but her real name was Catherine Eddowes.

There were lots of suspects at the time, but the police did not have any real evidence against them

Chapman's real name was Severiano Klosowski, a Polish immigrant working as a barber in Whitechapel in 1888

But there is no real evidence to connect him with the killings

At first, no one believed him, but he managed to persuade the court by skilfully questioning each of the witnesses, revealing personal information that only the real Jean Valjean could have known

You're a real gentleman, Monsieur.'

Now, after his conversation with the girl from the next room, he understood what real poverty was

Having been a mayor, he knew how to solve an awkward problem: the question of Cosette's real family He told everybody that he was not her father, but her guardian

I even know your real name

'500 francs! That's real money

Remember your jobs, and remember: no real names

She stands near to him, and he can see the tears in her eyes and the sad expression on her face, but this time he knows it is not real.

A good song, he thinks; a real song

He thinks that if he keeps running he can escape and find help; find the real police.

"I went to a real school

The scent of the real Wales."

Junior looks a bit happier now, and for twenty minutes Owen talks to him about how to hold the gun and how to walk with it, while his son listens carefully and asks sensible questions that show a real interest

A real casino, one of the best in the city

There was a screen on the wall with a list of places to choose from: places they would never see for real.

Now Gran believed in encouraging people to enjoy the real world, instead of constantly escaping to the simulators or the ultranet

"And swimming with dolphins is wonderful - although this isn't quite the real thing, of course."

You can earn a lot of money for it - a real salary, like your mom's."

How wonderful to think that there might still be a different world out there - a world where you could do all those things for real!

Maybe this was how it felt to go on a real journey, she thought

Sala realized that for Gran, the rose fruit meant something real; it spoke of a world that Sala could only begin to imagine

I have to live in the real world, Sala."

"Living in a pod isn't real," said Sala fiercely

"It's the least real thing you could possibly do

She opened her eyes, and Wena was still there, real and solid in front of her.

It's not real

It can't be real

"It is real, though," she said

"More real than Pod Life, Cham

The force field is real

The government is real

Our wrist chips are real

That's real

why can't that be real?"

"It's not real, you know."

We know it's real."

Where was Cham, the real Cham? She had to invent something fast

After two years, he'll be dying to see you and the real world again!"

She needed to see the real Cham, not his avatar

The real Cham

So the real Cham was still there, underneath! Maybe he'd just needed a little time to get used to them all again...

A real one."

"But it's real."

She missed the real Cham so much

It might be the last real moment with him she'd have.

And somehow, she hoped, she would reach Cham, through his avatar, and find the real person inside once more

They will think of me as the real Mrs de Winter at last

Rebecca was the real Mrs de Winter.

And all the time, the real Mrs de Winter, with her smile and her lovely face is lying cold and dead in the church.'

'She's the real Mrs de Winter, not you.'

The sound she'd heard had come as she was waking, a real noise, not an imagined one.

A real giant! A gargantua!"

He had plowed some of his substantial earnings into Las Vegas real estate, parts of two hotels, an automobile dealership, and a slot-machine casino downtown

Less than ten minutes later, when the curtains opened again, the mirrors had been taken away, and the stage had been transformed into an ice rink; the second production number was done on skates against a winter backdrop so real that it made Elliot shiver.

Standing near the left proscenium pillar, out of the main flow of the party, they nibbled at pieces of cake, talking about Magyck! And then about the law, Charlie and Helen Mainway, Las Vegas real estate - and, by some circuitous route, superhero movies.

In time Michael had made it clear to her that, he hadn't actually ever loved the real Christina

Some of our clients made smart moves and were carried right to the top by the explosive growth of the gaming industry and the Vegas real-estate market, and we just sort of shot up there along with them, hanging on to their coattails."

Just you take it real nice and easy."

"And this is real life

If they had intended to let him live, they wouldn't have used their real names in front of him

My wife has a real good sense of color."

"A real gun?"

Regulations on banks and real estate agents and on everyone else - except casino owners - are less troublesome here than in other states, which takes a burden off everybody, but which is especially attractive to people trying to spend and invest dirty cash

"But now that you're in real danger again for the first time in years, a part of you is responding to the challenge

After all, he had never killed an ordinary citizen or a person of real worth

It wasn't a pretty job, but it also wasn't without a measure of real dignity and heroism

spirit," Elliot said, deciding to stick with the occult terminology, not wanting to get bogged down in the real story about Danny.

They were real bad people."

Then he said to me, 'John Openshaw is in real danger

'He writes very clever books, though in real life people are not nearly so unpleasant as he makes his characters

Unless the real murderer is found, I shall be the suspect until I die

'But you know,' she sat up, 'unless the real murderer is found people will always think it was Lawrence

'Of course, when the expert saw the silver, he would know it wasn't the real thing, and then Colonel Protheroe would remember that he had shown the things to Dr Stone...'

But in real life it is usually the most obvious one

It's coming into your life, too! And you can't call me a dear child any more when we have a real child of our own

I have also decided that since now I'm going to be a real "wife and mother" I must look after the house as well

London, which had gone to bed on Sunday night not knowing much and caring even less, was woken in the early hours of Monday morning to a real sense of danger.

None of the wars of history had such an effect - six million people, moving without weapons or food or any real sense of direction

Life is real again, and the useless and bad ones have to die

The thought that had flashed into my mind grew real, and believable

When Laura had gone to bed, I asked Marian, 'What's the real reason?'

The plan depended on Anne staying alive until the real Lady Glyde left Blackwater Park.

With real education, she said, women could be good wives and mothers, but also good workers in many jobs.