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
• 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
• Back then, most would have deemed it unrealistic as the Cavaliers had never won a league playoff game, let alone a championship.
  — Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2022
• Look at dating as a fun way of getting to know new people rather than holding everyone to the same unrealistic standards.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2022
• The archival footage has been colorized because, the filmmakers said, young people think of black-and-white footage as unrealistic, as if from a different planet.
  — Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2022
• Nipping a hurricane in the bud is unrealistic too; dozens of tropical disturbances arise in the Atlantic basin every year, and scientists can’t predict which ones will balloon into hurricanes.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2024
• Rather, transfer fee spending is more likely the source of financial instability than its remedy, as some clubs spend extravagantly with unrealistic expectations.
  — Stefan Szymanski, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024