How to Use in real life in a Sentence
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And this is the case both in the series and in real life.
— Bogdan Costea, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023 -
Each failed to make the second round of the playoffs in real life.
— Troy Smith, Axios, 17 July 2024 -
We kind of like each other in real life, but then there’s the show.
— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2024 -
In fact, lots of the bird types named in the novel don’t exist in real life.
— James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023 -
This scene speaks to part of what drew Sydney — and others both on the show and in real life — to food in the first place.
— Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 6 July 2023 -
First off, the makeup had to look flawless in real life.
— Erin Lassner, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2024 -
The most frequent cause of gun deaths in real life are by suicide.
— Valerie Wu, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023 -
Though painfully shy in real life, Birkin pushed herself for the sake of art.
— Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 July 2023 -
The latter might loom larger in your head than in real life.
— Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2023 -
The gist of the story happened in real life, but the book was published as fiction.
— Amber Dowling, Variety, 2 May 2024 -
And trying to find somebody who had them in real life was hard.
— Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024 -
One small variation from the film is that, in real life, Ivana had a lawyer with her at the meeting.
— Mike Miller, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2024 -
And that is very much how our first responders get through it in in real life.
— Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2024 -
Whether that means in real life, the Upside Down or the Void is left, for now, to the imagination.
— Adam B. Vary, Variety, 8 Aug. 2024 -
Whether your seder is virtual or in real life this year, the meaning of Passover remains the same.
— Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day, 7 Mar. 2023 -
Nothing like that in real life, of course, but that was filmed in Budapest.
— Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2023 -
If the characters spoke in real life, their speeches would have the natural feel that’s in the scripts.
— Charles Solomon, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023 -
Arik did that in real life to this kid who was ... one of the best defensive players in our section.
— Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 9 Feb. 2024 -
Kirke’s City on Fire character is a mother of two, as the actress is in real life.
— Chloe Malle, Town & Country, 2 May 2023 -
The story behind the wound was even more harrowing in real life.
— Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2023 -
The Internet really can’t get to me, because at the end of the day, don’t none of these people know me in real life.
— Kyle Denis, Billboard, 16 May 2024 -
The striking quality of Winton, both in real life and the film, is his modesty.
— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023 -
The video featured two parts — one was a clip of what aired on the show and the other was a longer version that showed how close Cox and Perry were in real life.
— Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Nov. 2023 -
The formula is a hit with viewers, but does cooking for love work in real life?
— Jess Eng, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023 -
That’s the biggest thing to adjust to in real life – not being able to be outside as myself as much.
— Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2023 -
As the Netflix series shows, the monarchs went on to have 15 children with each other in real life.
— Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 10 May 2023 -
And the stuff that happens in the show ended up happening to a certain extent in real life.
— Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2024 -
The scene in the first movie of the T-rex chasing down the Jeep – and keeping up for a while – would probably be way less exciting in real life.
— New Atlas, 19 July 2024 -
The tailoring is refined, and the soft pastel blue shade looks even more striking in real life.
— Amy Louise Bailey, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2023 -
Applying the principles in real life Managers may find that using these three strategies might require adjusting their current feedback approach, but the benefits are worth it.
— Kip Holderness, Quartz, 21 Oct. 2024
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