REALITY in a Sentence

Learn REALITY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

318 example sentences for REALITY, such as:

1. Lights meant safety, people, reality.
2. All wars are in reality money squabbles.
3. Before it was reality, now it's just a memory.
4. Imagination is sometimes more vivid than reality.
5. Sometimes reality and fantasy are hard to distinguish.

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 Meanings and Examples of REALITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
reality
 n.  the state of being actual or real
 n.  the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be
Classic Sentence: (209 in 14 pages)
1  Zeena herself, from an oppressive reality, had faded into an insubstantial shade.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anaesthetic.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
3  For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly colored dreams that had in them no touch of reality.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  He moved in an inner world that was more beautiful than Georgia and came back to reality with reluctance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  Gradually the plantation widened out, as Gerald bought more acres lying near him, and in time the white house became a reality instead of a dream.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  At sixteen, thanks to Mammy and Ellen, she looked sweet, charming and giddy, but she was, in reality, self-willed, vain and obstinate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  Time and events were telescoped, jumbled together like a nightmare that had no reality or reason.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  The reality was the blushing Charles, emerging from her dressing room in his nightshirt, avoiding the startled look she gave him over the high-pulled sheet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  From the two he loved best, Charles had received no toughening influences, learned nothing of harshness or reality, and the home in which he grew to manhood was as soft as a bird's nest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  All wars are in reality money squabbles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  Scarlett felt it tremble, tremble as if he had been awakened from a nightmare into a half-sense of reality.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  For an instant, reality went out of her and she was lost.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
13  Lights meant safety, people, reality.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
14  In reality, her thoughts were finding definite utterance in the tranquil recapitulation of the blessings in store for her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
15  In reality, the two differed from each other as much as they differed from the object of their mutual contemplation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
Example Sentence: (109 in 8 pages)
16  The reality is that there is not enough money to pay for this project.
17  The oft-quoted example of Nero playing the violin as Rome burned shows the Emperor's detachment from reality.
18  Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.
19  The establishment of the socialist system to we opened a reach the ideal state of roads, and the ideal into reality needs to rely on our hard work.
20  The media distorts reality; categorises people as all good or all bad.
21  Before it was reality, now it's just a memory.
22  Imagination is sometimes more vivid than reality.
23  They seemed to have the perfect marriage but the reality was very different.
24  Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
25  We thought he was serious but in reality he was joking.
26  He could no longer distinguish between illusion and reality.
27  We were faced with the awful reality of having nowhere to live.
28  The distance between your dreams and reality is called action.
29  Sometimes reality and fantasy are hard to distinguish.
30  A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.