How to Use unrealistic in a Sentence

unrealistic

adjective

• The dialogue in the movie was unrealistic.
• It's unrealistic to expect so much.
• The kind of hope too unrealistic most of the last decade.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
• The World Cup is a grind, and to expect even the world’s No. 1 team to be at its peak in every game over five weeks is simply unrealistic.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
• Since that is unrealistic, Xi requires the PLA to stay prepared to use force.
  — Steve Tsang, TIME, 11 May 2024
• If others plans seem unrealistic near the 12th, just wait and see.
  — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Apr. 2022
• This doesn’t mean Knowles wants shows to be unrealistic.
  — Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• Sanctions and stockpiles From the start, both sides’ demands to restore the deal were unrealistic to the other.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2022
• In this version of the NBA, a four-year plan for jumping from the bottom to the top is wildly ambitious, if not unrealistic.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Apr. 2023
• To hear Bob Iger say that our demands for a living wage are unrealistic?
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 9 Aug. 2023
• Perhaps the most unrealistic part of the show is how quickly the fungus overtakes the world, experts suggest.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
• Less than six months later, that bold claim doesn’t seem quite so unrealistic.
  — Kyle Schnitzer, Robb Report, 17 Feb. 2022
• Mike Woodson will try to tell his team and his players will try to tell themselves every game is and has to be the same, but in this case that's simply unrealistic.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Jan. 2022
• Hopes for a steady forward march of free markets and free people have proved unrealistic.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• In China, as in much of Asia and the rest of the world, social media is awash with unhealthy and unrealistic trends promoting extreme weight loss.
  — Candice Zhu, CNN, 17 June 2023
• Mace also set the highly unrealistic goal of filing 25 new bills per year.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
• Share stories about the lack of support, guidance and feedback, along with the push for putting in long hours and being given unrealistic deadlines.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• But the strength of the winds required to explain such an extremely tapered flow is unrealistic.
  — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022
• The same goes for trying to find fault with a poll by identifying an unrealistic result in its crosstabs.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2024
• Many had been on the receiving end of his wrath in his desperate unrealistic attempt to cling to power.
  — Geoff Duncan, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• With the Dodgers, Giants, and Padres in their division, a playoff berth is unrealistic.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2022
• Many students thought that the school wouldn’t actually do it—and that stripping phones from teens was unrealistic.
  — Julie Jargon, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2022
• But the world has made little progress toward that goal, which many experts believe is unrealistic.
  — Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• The image of Putin in a jail cell, for example, includes strangely twisted metal bars and an unrealistic depth of field, O'Brien said.
  — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
• But perhaps the most unrealistic thing about the show—besides the fact that no one ever seems to get stuck in traffic, despite constantly taking taxis—was the lack of uniform checks.
  — Abrigail Williams, Vogue, 18 Nov. 2023
• And even the most unrealistic parts of fantasy movies can connect you to real emotions.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Men's Health, 30 Aug. 2022
• Since then, the singer spoke out about plastic surgery and the unrealistic expectations placed on women to bounce back after giving birth.
  — Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
• At the time, Mr. Duress’s plans for the future consisted of elaborate ideas for con jobs that his friends tended to laugh off as unrealistic, Ms. Holmes said in a phone interview.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• This approach, which was known as neoclassical economics, struck Harris as an unrealistic parable that didn’t reflect the real world.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
• Musk has suggested slicing $2 trillion in annual federal spending, an amount experts say is unrealistic given that most of the nation's $6.7 trillion in yearly outlays is spent on Social Security, Medicare and the military.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024