Use real in a sentence
Sentences starting with real
- Real Republicanism is stern and severe; its essence is not in forms of government, but in the omnipotence of public opinion which grows out of it. [6]
- Real life is so comforting after the mock kind so many of us live; which singers and actors live anyhow. [11]
- Real respect is gone when the public sees that a man is able to buy it. [4]
- Real difficulties exist, but these do not reach them. [4]
Sentences ending with real
- She was a woman, and therefore the daughter of pretence even when most real. [11]
- We left him with professions of esteem and respect which were real. [6]
- I have talked with men who at that time talked with him, and felt of him, and knew he was real. [5]
- Warm, still days were interspersed between the windy ones, when the sky was turquoise blue, when the very river banks were steeped in new colours, when the distant, shadowy mountains became real. [9]
- It was his way--too civil to be real. [11]
- Disposed as I was to think badly of him, I never doubted that his love for her was real. [12]
- But no, it was real--pitifully real, shamefully real, hideously real. [5]
- There was one very strong argument in favor of this idea--namely, that the quantity of coin he had seen was too vast to be real. [5]
- Her troubles seemed very real. [9]
- Then Isaac Worthington understood that his premonitions had been real. [9]
Short sentences using real
- It's the real truth. [2]
- This dream is too real. [12]
- It's the real thing. [11]
- And that seems the real. [11]
- It had never seemed real. [9]
- Which is the real? [11]
- Duty made it real. [9]
- The misery is real. [4]
- Here is a real tragedy. [9]
- I mean the real thing. [9]
Sentences containing real two or more times
- But I loved you--" She shook her head, and with a smile of pitying disdain--he could so little see the real truth, his real misdemeanour--she said: "Oh no, never--never! [11]
- You thought that with your beauty--yes, you are beautiful--you'd conquer him, and that he'd give in, and become a real husband in a real home. [11]
- I know the ways of real gentlemen and real ladies, and I know those fellows in store clothes that look a little too fine,--outside. [6]
- I don't believe there's any real suffering--not real suffering--among those people; that is, it would be suffering from our point of view, but they've been used to it all their lives, and they don't feel their' discomfort so much. [8]
- The realm of the real is spiritual; the opposite of Spirit is matter; and the opposite of the real is unreal or material. [5]
- The real life that I live, and the real life that I suppose all of you live, is a life of interior sin. [5]
- I'm going to stay right here in Foxon Falls, Minnie, I've got a real job on my hands, and I need a real woman with special knowledge to help me. [9]
- Yes, it's real, real, real, and he'll never see it--never see it now, for I've fought it' all out, and I've won. [11]
- Is the habit of good living mere habit and mere acting, in which the real man never lives his real life, or is it the real life? [11]
- So, for the next half-hour they were all at the disposal of the Man from Outside, who worked as though it was a real stage, and they were real players, and there were great audiences to see them. [11]
More example sentences with the word real in them
- The real world, your world, England, Europe, would have no more use for all your skill and knowledge and power, because there would be a woman in the way. [11]
- I am not your wife in any real sense of the word, I cannot hold you, I cannot even interest you. [9]
- Had you uttered your real opinion in the first place, the wine would have tasted better to us both. [10]
- The images of your manifold gods are everywhere to be seen; they crowd on our gaze, and yet who knows not that their real is not their apparent significance? [10]
- I don't ask you to reveal it, but I will suppose a case--a case which you will answer as a starting point for the real thing I am going to come at, and that's all I want. [5]
- Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magicians, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh. [5]
- Oh, good-licks; are you in real dead-wood earnest, Tom? [5]
- I do hope you have not dropped the classics and gone in for the modern notion of being real and practical. [4]
- And yet when you come to think, there is no real difference between a conscience and an anvil--I mean for comfort. [5]
- Now, for some years it has been inadequate, frequently unintelligible, often grossly misleading, failing wholly to give the real spirit and meaning of the most important discussions; and it is as dry as chips besides. [4]
- In all the years he had taken no chance to pay tribute to the woman who, in a real sense, had been his mistress of body and mind for one short term of life, and who once, and once only, had yielded to him. [11]
- During the first year after the catastrophe at Kaid's Palace Hylda could scarcely endure the advances made by her many admirers, the greatly eligible and the eager ineligible, all with as real an appreciation of her wealth as of her personal attributes. [11]
- Mr. Chesterton, in writing about the American Revolution, observes that the real case for the colonists is that they felt that they could be something which England would not help them to be. [9]
- Suppose you didn't write the real wise thing--and only two sheets of paper and so much to say? [11]
- A real reform would settle them once and for all, and wind up by giving us an alphabet that we wouldn't have to spell with at all, instead of this present silly alphabet, which I fancy was invented by a drunken thief. [5]
- I think this would develop Lee's real condition and purposes better than the cavalry alone can do. [7]
- If Mr. Gridley would be so good as to find her some kind of a real handsome Chris'n name for 'em, she'd provide 'em with the other one. [6]
- I suppose it would be a real treat to a camel to have a keg of nails for supper. [5]
- Mr. Crozier is worth a real queen with the beauty of one of the Rhine maidens. [11]
- Every real thinker's world of thought has its centre in a few formulae, about which they revolve as the planets circle round the sun which cast them off. [6]
- Something was at work, as real in its effects as the sunlight, but invisible. [9]
- I doubt if woman has real ingenuity; she has great adaptability. [4]
- He stood just within the hollow of a cavern so immense that he had no conception of its real dimensions. [13]
- I had been withdrawn from all real feeling and living for hours, but I believe that same suspension was my salvation. [11]
- The human thing with the grip of real life was necessary. [11]
- The king tapped with his white-gloved hand on the ledge of the box when he was pleased with the singing.--To a morning concert and heard the real Paganini. [6]
- They know whether with all their leisure they get placidity of mind and the real rest which the older nations have learned to enjoy. [4]
- But it was with a real human kindness, after all. [6]
- For reasons which will presently appear, I will withhold his real name and titles, and call him Lieutenant-General Lord Arthur Scoresby, V.C., K.C.B., etc., etc., etc. [5]
- No real good will be accomplished until noble, burgher and peasant cheerfully yield to him, and unite to battle under his leadership for the highest blessings of life. [10]
- I find myself wholly unable to form any conjecture of what fact or facts, real or supposed, you spoke; but my opinion of your veracity will not permit me for a moment to doubt that you at least believed what you said. [7]
- Therefore, on the whole, if he were a superior fellow, incapable of mistaking it for personal conceit, I think I would let out the fact of the real American feeling about Old-World folks. [6]
- The elderly servant, who, singularly enough, was of noble family--his real name was Von Wurmkessel--did his duty as noiselessly as a shadow. [10]
- It was worth while living to feel the real thing. [11]
- Are there passages which burn with real fire--not punk, fox-fire, make believe? [5]
- No one knew whether this was the real cloudy sky, or whether another, colorless awning closed them in. [10]
- All in all, whenever he thought of this pair, he felt like the lover of art who entrusts the finest gem in his collection to a rich man who knows not how to prize its real value, and puts it in the wrong place. [10]
- I tell you what,' said Codlin, 'for all his having a kind of way with him that you'd be very apt to like, I'm the real, open-hearted man. [12]
- You can get what the European hotel-keeper thinks is coffee, but it resembles the real thing as hypocrisy resembles holiness. [5]
- I didn't know what he was--a traitor, the slimmest of the slim, a real Hottentot-Boer. [11]
- I contend that we've got a real substantial success to celebrate now; but even if we hadn't, the celebration would do more than anything else to create the success, if we got it properly before the public. [8]
- How charming they were--in spirit, manner, language, pronunciation, enunciation, grammar, phrasing, matter, carriage, clothes--in every detail that goes to make the real lady and gentleman, and welcome guest. [5]
- Inside, the walls were stuccoed in imitation of stone,--first a dark brown square, then two light brown squares, then another dark brown square, and so on, to represent the accidental differences of shade always noticeable in the real stones of which walls are built. [6]
- But those sounds were so real and so human and so moving that the idea of ghosts passed straight out of our minds, and Sir Jean de Metz spoke out and said: "Come! [5]
- One or two were poltroons in body and mind, with only a real instinct for money-making and a capacity for constructive individualism. [11]
- To him they were incapable of the real business of life, and were only meant to be housekeepers to men who make the world go round. [11]
- His positive instructions were full of value, but the spirit in which he taught inspired that loyal love of truth which lies at the bottom of all real excellence. [3]
- In Hamley there were but two in whom she had any real comfort and help--Lady Eglington and the old chair-maker. [11]
- I liked this well enough, and I whispered in her ear: "Tell me, Cousin Maud, are you not my real, true mother? [10]
- But in six weeks at latest I shall be here again; then real life will first begin, and Eros will make the roses bloom for us. [10]
- In busy life we have no real or lasting dreams, no ideals. [11]
- In real life we do not call that a story where everything is left unconcluded and in the air. [4]
- Prayer means that we desire to, and will, walk in the light so far as we receive it, even though with bleeding footsteps, and waiting patiently on the Lord, will leave our real desires to be rewarded by Him. [5]
- Chief among the waverers were those who had come to America with visions of a fortune, who had practised a repulsive thrift in order to acquire real estate, who carried in their pockets dog-eared bank books recording payments already made. [9]
- Colossal as it was, the real base on which its weight rested was actually very small: the view from the village had not been all deceitful. [11]
- Yes, there it was, a real thing in his heart. [11]
- Our university town was very much like the real country, in those days of which I am thinking. [6]
- The real thing was the soul within, the longing, loving woman whose heart was heavy and unsatisfied. [4]
- The next day was the real holiday. [4]
- The real difficulty was that not one of her adorers had ever greatly interested her. [6]
- I said-- 'I was supposing a case, but I am coming to the real one now. [5]
- He thought I was startled at his hand-pressure, and did not guess the real cause. [11]
- Though Boonda Broke was smiling, the lad's face flushed again with anger, for the man's real character had been revealed to him on the instant, and he was yet in the indignant warmth of the new experience. [11]
- His real name was Rice, and he had undertaken to criticize Clemens's reports. [5]
- Eldon Part's grief was real, and the beautiful English window in the south transept of the church bears witness to it. [9]
- D. D. Porter was placed in command of the steamer Powhatan, and Captain Samuel Mercer was detached therefrom, by my special order, and neither of them is responsible for any apparent or real irregularity on their part or in connection with that vessel. [7]
- After the sermon was over, an elder took his place at a table within the rails, and the real business of the evening began. [4]
- His occupation indeed was only in his eyes a temporary makeshift while he was preparing himself for what was to be his real work in life. [4]
- But his mind was on the logical side-track, and he followed the chain of reasoning without fairly perceiving where it would lead him, if he carried it into real life. [6]
- Of course he was not to be trifled with either--in a word, he was a real master! [2]
- He saw there was no real knowledge of the relationship of Carnac and himself in Denzil's eyes; but he held out his hand with imitation courtesy, as though to say good-bye. [11]
- Now, however, there was more real cause for alarm a trumpet-blast was heard, and a maniple of the twenty-second legion marched down in close order on the crowd who fled before them. [10]
- His real name was Jacob Fuller! [5]
- His real life was in the eddy of his many interests, in the field of his superficial culture, in the eyes of the world. [11]
- But no, he was in real earnest, and went right on, perfectly ca'm. [5]
- His real diamond was in danger of being exchanged for a stone, whose value he did not know. [10]
- Why, that dervish was hunting in that little hill for the treasures of the earth, and didn't know he was walking over the real ones for a thousand miles. [5]
- His real weapon was his brain, that which civilisation had given him in lieu of primitive prowess and the giant's strength. [11]
- Such a victim was good-hearted, simple natured young Yates (I use a fictitious name, but the real name began, as this one does, with a Y). [5]
- I hope it was genuine, for they cheated infamously in the matter of this concretion, which ought to come out of an animal's stomach, but the real history of which resembles what is sometimes told of modern sausages. [3]
- Now that she was close to me, I could see that her beauty was real and notable. [11]
- In the centre was a toy man-of-war, three feet in length, with turrets and guns, and propellers and a real steam-engine. [9]
- I said it was a relief to me to see two real men, but I had no reason to complain of solitude thereafter till daybreak. [4]
- Everybody said it was a real beautiful oath, and asked Tom if he got it out of his own head. [5]
- The real salutation was a divine ray which passed between their eyes--hers and his--over the commonplace mortals between. [9]
- She felt a warm moisture on her cheeks, and realized that she was crying with the first real sorrow of her life. [9]
- What a man wants to do, in talking with a stranger, is to get and to give as much of the best and most real life that belongs to the two talkers as the time will let him. [6]
- Perhaps you only wanted to see how real my devotion to this cause is. [11]
- Down the winding walk from the hill, touched by a distant electric light, the loitering people, in couples and in groups, seemed no more in real life than the supernumeraries in a scene at the opera. [4]
- This bunch of violets was the impulse of a big, magnanimous nature; but it would be followed by the inevitable reaction, which would be the real test and trial. [11]
- This story is very short, and is perhaps the most highly tragic of anything of its length that has ever been witnessed in real life. [7]
- She saw a very real, very human individual, clad in a dark nondescript suit of clothes which had been bought ready-made, and plainly without the bestowal of much thought, on Fifth Street. [9]
- It was a very real honor to be in the thoughts of so great a man as Captain Sellers, and I had wit enough to appreciate it and be proud of it. [5]
- There is something very real about this sort of politeness. [5]
- This is a very dangerous confession, for fifty years make everything hopelessly old-fashioned, without giving it the charm of real antiquity. [6]
- The world is very complacent, and apparently worships success and votes for smartness, but it would surprise some of our most successful men to know what a real respect there is in the community, after all, for downright integrity. [4]
- She was a venerable rack- heap, and a fraud to boot; for she was playing herself for personal property, whereas the good honest dirt was so thickly caked all over her that she was righteously taxable as real estate. [5]
- That soul of vanity which wraps about the real soul of every woman fell down at last before the highest office in the land, and the gifted bearer of the office. [11]
- The people don't value the vote, they know nothing about the real problems. [9]
- Of what real value is it? [5]
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