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How to use unrealistic in a sentence

18 example sentences · adjective

Unrealistic means not realistic. Example: “How much of our thinking is based on unrealistic planted scripts of drama, romance and violence?”

Examples of unrealistic by meaning

adjectiveNot realistic.

  • How much of our thinking is based on unrealistic planted scripts of drama, romance and violence?2008 August 13, Charles Hugh Smith, “When Societies Watch Too Much Television”, in Of Two Minds
  • It meant all through journeys required at least two changes of train, making commuting to London unrealistic.2023 January 25, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Landslip wrecks London commuter services for 'weeks'”, in RAIL, number 975, page 8

More sentences with unrealistic

  • Contrary to popular assumptions, this does not mean that everything is perfect and characters are completely unrealistic.2026 March 19, Kate Montgomery, “(Im)politeness in Neuromixed Interactions: An investigation of three autistic romance novels”, in SSRN…. From the entry neuromixed
  • It's super unrealistic to expect a diapercuck to get aroused if there are no diapers involved.2025 September 2, @alternatink.bsky.social, Bluesky (post), archived from the original on 14 Aug 2026. From the entry diapersexuality
  • Although unigram language models are simple, they clearly make unrealistic assumptions about word occurrences in text.2022 [2009], Chengxiang Zhai, Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry language model
  • The unrealistic habits of StudyTube have created counterproductive relationships with audiences to academia.2021 September 29, Nicole Mui, “Investigative Report: Toxic Positivity; Selling success: Influencers’ romanticization of school life”, in…. From the entry StudyTube
  • This view is unrealistic in that neural and anatomical complexity evolved repeatedly within many independent lineages.2020, Joseph Cesario, David J. Johnson, Heather L. Eisthen, “Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside”, in Current Directions…. From the entry scala naturae
  • It is a picture of dither, delay, unrealistic costings - and Department for Transport indecisiveness.2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, in Rail, page 3. From the entry indecisiveness
  • Most of the electric guitar samples I've come across tend to be overprocessed and unrealistic.2007, Cliff Truesdell, Mastering Digital Audio Production. From the entry overprocess
  • UNREALISTIC OUTLINE STATUTORY ZONING in Sai Kung North was causing frustration and resentment.1996, James Hayes, “The New Territories 1985–87”, in Friends and Teachers: Hong Kong and Its People 1953-87, Hong Kong University Press…. From the entry Sai Kung North
  • Here's what I don't like: overhumanized TFs (eg: fleshy faces, Primus theory), and unrealistic humans.1994 April 19, Steven Mar, “Don't Blame B.Budiansky!!!”, in alt.toys.transformers (Usenet), retrieved 24 Mar 2022. From the entry overhumanize
  • So we'll be hammering the server in an unrealistic manner, but we'll see how the additional clients affect overall performance.1995, Optimizing Windows NT, volume 4, page 226. From the entry hammer
  • Last of all, if you think Mr Darrow's tiny handcarved houses sound unrealistic, go online and check out the work of microartist Willard Wigan.2018, Ross Montgomery, Max and the Millions. From the entry microartist
  • Prison abolitionists are dismissed as utopians and idealists whose ideas are at best unrealistic and impracticable, and, at worst, mystifying and foolish.2003, Angela Y. Davis, chapter 1, in Are Prisons Obsolete?, archived from the original on 19 May 2023, pages 9-10. From the entry impracticable
  • Since Magnus was kingpin of the Czecho operation and of several other little shows in Eastern Europe besides, this was a totally unrealistic demand."1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy. From the entry specious
  • The salt-forced extinction of potential virivorous nanoflagellates is a possible explanation, but the ability of these viruses to better resist ambient UV radiations is not unrealistic either.2011, Bettarel et al., “Ecological traits of planktonic viruses and prokaryotes along a full-salinity gradient”, in FEMS Microbiology…. From the entry virivorous
  • It is unrealistic in most project settings to expect a team member to “fall on a grenade” to sacrifice his life for the sake of his teammates.2007, George Pitagorsky, The Zen Approach to Project Management. From the entry fall on a grenade
  • Thus, by having one's identity be solely based upon superficial notions of beauty and more specifically ultra femininity, the Soft Girl aesthetic promotes exclusivity based on unrealistic standards of appearance.2021 April, Dunya Mostaghimi, “How to: AeSthEt!C”, in C Magazine, volume 9, edition 4, Palo Alto High School, page 17. From the entry soft girl

Meaning of unrealistic

  1. adjective Not realistic.

Full definition of unrealistic

Questions about unrealistic in a sentence

How do you use unrealistic in a sentence?
Unrealistic is used as an adjective. For example: “How much of our thinking is based on unrealistic planted scripts of drama, romance and violence?”
What is a short sentence with unrealistic?
“The unrealistic habits of StudyTube have created counterproductive relationships with audiences to academia.”
What does unrealistic mean?
Unrealistic means not realistic.

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