REALISTIC in a Sentence

Learn REALISTIC 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.

14 example sentences for REALISTIC, such as:

1. Establish deadlines that are more realistic.
2. The battle scenes were frighteningly realistic.
3. Police have to be realistic about violent crime.
4. It's just not realistic to expect a promotion so soon.
5. It's best to set realistic goals that you can achieve.

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 Meanings and Examples of REALISTIC
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
realistic
 a.  representing what is real; not abstract or ideal
 a.  of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of realism
Classic Sentence:
1  In Mammy, Scarlett had found a realist more uncompromising than herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  But it is women who are the calm realists once they discard the fetishes of the premarital hunt.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
3  He felt that they were hard-featured realists and that they resented an exactitude which was the produce of a leisure not within their reach.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
Example Sentence:
1  It's best to set realistic goals that you can achieve.
2  The battle scenes were frighteningly realistic.
3  Training includes realistic simulation of casualty procedures.
4  The delegates outlined what they considered a realistic timetable for troop withdrawal.
5  Police have to be realistic about violent crime.
6  Establish deadlines that are more realistic.
7  It's just not realistic to expect a promotion so soon.
8  It is not realistic to expect people to spend so much money.
9  Pictures should be in focus, with realistic colours and well composed groups.
10  These proposals represent a realistic starting point for negotiation.
11  At the end of Youth Festival, the Pope gave a basically optimistic and realistic vision for the future of the Church.