How to Use surreal in a Sentence

surreal

adjective

• The whole thing was completely surreal.
• So, yes, just the scale of the thing is so surreal now.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• The surreal, the meta ... and the sublime clumsiness of the young and horny.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• There's no need to get out of bed when the view is this surreal.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2022
• There is always beauty to be found in the bizarre, the surreal and the weird.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
• That was the surreal scene at the Capitol one year ago this week.
  — ABC News, 2 Jan. 2022
• Maybe even more surreal was the effort to then get the show back on track.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2022
• And the image of the corpses thawing out in the middle of the town ice rink just looks surreal.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2024
• And the wider region is on the edge of its seat as those surreal scenes flash on its screens.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 1 Sep. 2021
• Nycole: think the word that speaks to that most is: surreal.
  — Rashad Grove, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• Over the course of the evening, speakers filed in one-by-one to stand behind a lectern and face a surreal scene.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
• Rachel Ogechi Kanu and Cathy Ang, who play friends of the duo, said being on the set was surreal.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 30 Sep. 2022
• There are like, these big highs of like, ‘This is so surreal.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2024
• The whole process of making and recording the song and video with such an icon has been very surreal.
  — Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE.com, 18 July 2019
• For Dampier, these last three weeks have been surreal, the stuff of dreams.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 11 Dec. 2021
• In the grand scheme of coaching, this is just like a surreal moment.
  — Noah Trister, baltimoresun.com, 21 Dec. 2021
• Just to see his face, talk to him a little bit, was surreal for us.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2023
• Trinket had a penchant for the surreal and the bizarre, and wore more than one McQueen piece in the films.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2023
• It’s kind of a dream and very surreal to be sitting here right now to sing this song with you.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 21 Apr. 2022
• The past six months of Laufey’s life have been nothing less than surreal.
  — Leah Lu, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2024
• Stacey: There’s a lot of clapping for a long time, but just surreal.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• That one still, a decade and a half later, feels surreal.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 15 July 2022
• The video landed around the world with a surreal flutter of light and sound, just as David Lynch promised.
  — Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
• Seeing the boys in the dugout cheering me on was a surreal moment.
  — Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 July 2017
• Seeing the hoodoos covered in a shroud of fresh snow is surreal.
  — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2019
• This was kind of a big deal, not to mention a surreal surprise.
  — Graeme McMillan, WIRED, 22 Apr. 2018
• The resort is a surreal spa for survivors of the worst attack against Jews since the Holocaust.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
• Amid your rise and all of your success, what have been the most surreal moments?
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 11 July 2024
• In the film’s boldest surreal flourish, the entity — still in its monstrous maternal form — conquers Rose once and for all.
  — Janey Tracey, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2024
• What Ryan showed us all [so far] was a sort of nightmare, fever dream, surreal liminal version of our reality.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024