How do you use Surreal in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like phantasmagoric or phantasmagorical, plus the exact meaning.
Surreal in a sentence
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Surreal meaning
Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous.
Synonyms of Surreal
Using Surreal
- The main meaning on this page is: Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous.
- Useful related words include: phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surrealistic, unrealistic.
- In the example corpus, surreal often appears in combinations such as: surreal and, the surreal, was surreal.
Context around Surreal
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Surreal
- In this selection, "surreal" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, feels, two, completely, moment, moments and numbers stand out and add context to how "surreal" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 18k feels surreal as she and a little surreal to you. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "surreal" sits close to words such as baseman, boil and copied, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with surreal
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Beautiful and varied locations to race through or explore, ranging from photorealistic to surreal. (14 words)
But that's just the beginning as a series of surreal events soon ensue. (14 words)
Even their pub quiz is a little bit surreal – they have a sweary limericks round. (15 words)
So it’s been kind of surreal in that sense that I’ve been obsessed with the show since it came out, and there are a lot of other people who have been too, and now I’m a part of it, and its surreal and really fantastic. (48 words)
A comparison y ≤ c between a form y and a surreal number c is performed by choosing a form z from the equivalence class c and evaluating y ≤ z; and likewise for c ≤ x and for comparison b ≤ c between two surreal numbers. (43 words)
Before the vote, a surreal Republican-against-Republican debate played out on the House floor as members of the hard-right railed against their own Speaker and verbally sparred with Mr. McCarthy’s defenders. (34 words)
David, walking onto that set, did you get a sense of nostalgia and did it feel a little surreal to you? (21 words)
Example sentences (20)
So it’s been kind of surreal in that sense that I’ve been obsessed with the show since it came out, and there are a lot of other people who have been too, and now I’m a part of it, and its surreal and really fantastic.
Updated at 4:15 p.m. ETIt was surreal moment even for a White House accustomed to surreal moments.
A comparison y ≤ c between a form y and a surreal number c is performed by choosing a form z from the equivalence class c and evaluating y ≤ z; and likewise for c ≤ x and for comparison b ≤ c between two surreal numbers.
Ironic, humorous or surreal use A subvertisement of the Ford logo The word is sometimes appended to statements intended to be understood ironically, humorously, or as surreal.
When asked if the Clangers adventures were quite surreal sometimes, Postgate replied "They're surreal but logical.
Adding to the allure, René Clair’s surreal masterpiece, Entr’acte, will be screened with its original Erik Satie soundtrack.
Ally Middleton, head of education and clinical development at the trust, said: “It feels surreal to be recognised for such prestigious awards, let alone five.
And it’s a hard, hard project to turn into something commercially viable, because it’s so imaginative and surreal that there’s no way that it can be done cheaply.
As one of the webcomic's founding members, Wilson said watching Cyanide and Happiness has been a "surreal" feeling almost every day for 20 years.
Beautiful and varied locations to race through or explore, ranging from photorealistic to surreal.
Before the vote, a surreal Republican-against-Republican debate played out on the House floor as members of the hard-right railed against their own Speaker and verbally sparred with Mr. McCarthy’s defenders.
Being part of the recent World Cup Finals in was something of a ‘surreal’ moment for goalkeeper Ethan Horvath.
Bradby: You write about it incredibly movingly in the book, you write about the funeral and the surreal nature of it.
But also there’s something so completely surreal about the experience because it’s almost like you were visiting a completely separate state other than the host state.
But that's just the beginning as a series of surreal events soon ensue.
But you know, it’s less surreal in one important way, which is that because it’s not the novel, it’s an adaptation, I can look at it as a completely new thing.
David, walking onto that set, did you get a sense of nostalgia and did it feel a little surreal to you?
Describing the moment Kerr came to the teen and gave her the jersey, Ms Menadue said it was “so surreal”.
Emma said raising £18k feels 'surreal' as she didn't think they'd raise so much - all she wanted was to 'make a difference' and her 'voice to be heard'.
Even their pub quiz is a little bit surreal – they have a sweary limericks round.
Common combinations with surreal
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- surreal and 25×
- the surreal 21×
- was surreal 16×
- surreal experience 16×
- and surreal 14×
- surreal to 12×
- as surreal 9×
- in surreal 9×
- so surreal 7×
- of surreal 6×