How to Use surrealistic in a Sentence

surrealistic

adjective
  • It was a surrealistic experience.
  • But the clothes weren't the only surrealistic aspect of the evening.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 2 July 2024
  • The mural is an image of a goddess rising out of a field with a surrealistic twist.
    — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 6 Nov. 2021
  • And then, so many of the film’s big ideas are expressed in surrealistic visuals.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Add this one to the pile of groovy, surrealistic anthems the band has been churning out for 30-plus years.
    — Hank Shteamer, SPIN, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Lim’s approach is more surrealistic, but never in an ominous way.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • None of the three made another catch but Keenan Allen, the rock, had a surrealistic grab.
    — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Her bold, surrealistic paintings often depict houses, chairs and trees moored to chunks of land that appear to float in midair.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • The wind has whittled the island’s rocks into surrealistic forms.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • There is also this whole surrealistic vibe to Belgium, which also reflects on my work.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 12 June 2024
  • Scroll down to see more surrealistic, mesmerizing images from the book.
    — Kelsey Kloss, ELLE Decor, 7 Oct. 2016
  • Much of the rest of the album surfs between surrealistic fantasy worlds and Welles’s own inner life.
    — David Peisner, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The situation in the cartoon, in which the man is cut into three pieces but still alive, appears like a surrealistic artwork.
    — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 5 Feb. 2024
  • To enjoy Paprika is to give yourself over to its surrealistic logic rather than try to puzzle it out.
    — Katie Rife, EW.com, 31 May 2024
  • Nowadays, it would be considered more like a surrealistic take in the style of Black Mirror.
    — Rachel King, Fortune, 6 July 2018
  • The past decade has been a surrealistic nightmare, and far deadlier than both combat deployments.
    — Bryan Box, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2021
  • His fiction is routinely described as surrealistic, but that misses the point.
    — Patrick Kurp, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
  • At the same time, the show is really experimental and a bit surrealistic.
    — Salamishah Tillet, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The goofy rom-com vibe gives way to a more serious and more surrealistic final chapter in which Emi has a reckoning with herself, with love and with death.
    — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Fornés’s surrealistic style, like Beckett’s or Ionesco’s, favors quips and epigrams.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Covers on the bikes’ back tires depict a scene from the show’s surrealistic journey through an imaginary Mexico.
    — Danika Worthington, The Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2017
  • Chen, who is bravely wading into the commercial aspects of the market, gifted her guests a key festooned with flies (a nice surrealistic touch).
    — Vogue, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Fred Uhlman, known for his vivid landscapes and surrealistic drawings, and Kurt Schwitters, best known for his collages.
    — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
  • That to get caught up in the cryptic clues and esoteric callbacks is to miss the larger surrealistic beauty of what Lynch is trying to create.
    — Joanna Robinson, vanityfair.com, 23 May 2017
  • Many of these locales have the sort of surrealistic, menacing air of a hellish provincial town in a Robert Bolaño novel.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The original idea was birthed from a portrait of the French surrealistic artist Claude Cahun that Tessa shared with me.
    — Tiffany Dodson, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Then the fictional story begins, and from its very start Romero lends its realistic settings a surrealistic kick.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 June 2021
  • Looking back decades later with the Detroit Free Press, Kramer described it as a surrealistic goof.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Linklater makes this clear in a postscript at the end of the film, but the choice is indicative of the surrealistic spin Linklater gave Johnson’s life story.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 7 June 2024
  • Straight from a surrealistic horror movie, the image doesn’t comfortably explain itself to the audience, and that doesn’t concern the filmmaker.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2024

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