How to Use unreality in a Sentence

unreality

noun
  • There is a kind of bubble of unreality that goes along with it.
    — Tolly Wright, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2021
  • This void of knowledge is part of the unreality of my grief.
    — Karan Mahajan, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
  • So a lot of this just does feel confined to unreality or not the concrete world so much.
    — The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Indeed, there was a sense of slight unreality about the moment.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The unreality of the present moment should be a boon for artists and all who deal in the imagination.
    — Dean Kissick, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The passion for sports is a matter of its unrealities—its past is more myth than history.
    — Austin Elias-De Jesus, New Yorker, 3 June 2026
  • The unreality of Lexi’s play gave us a fun-house mirror of the show cast back onto itself.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 2 June 2026
  • There’s an unreality to the beauty here that adds to the fantasy patina.
    — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2024
  • In giving each of its characters new foils, the unreality of the show finally takes off.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2025
  • That sense of unreality pervades the performances at times too.
    — Katie Walsh, Orange County Register, 24 Feb. 2017
  • The effect is to emphasize the essential unreality of a play that has always been, in its own words, weird.
    — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
  • She was never checked by reality, and this gave more power to her unreality.
    — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
  • As to the actual debate, there was an aura of unreality among the Democrats.
    — John Seiler, Oc Register, 29 Apr. 2026
  • In rare cases, sleepers gain insight into the unreality of their dreams from within the dream itself.
    — Rachel Barr, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Two tragic guests, in the face of unreality, seek solace together.
    — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • In Kyiv, there has been an air of unreality about the situation and stoic resolve.
    — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 20 Feb. 2022
  • There is an air of unreality about the debate that has been raging this summer over a Brexit transition deal.
    — Simon Nixon, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2017
  • In an apparent confirmation of the scene’s unreality, the man then rings a palm-size bell, echoing the horses’ bells in the first scene.
    — Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Cryptocurrencies have a certain unreality to them, but the damage would be widespread and very real.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Logic may seem like a churlish thing to wish for in a movie that deliberately operates in such a heightened state of unreality.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • After such a long Conservative reign, there’s a feeling of unreality to events.
    — Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Vogue, 5 July 2024
  • The most striking feature of this year's presidential contest has been its unreality.
    — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The approach conjures a kind of unreality, leaving the audience to assemble the truth out of a jigsaw puzzle of pieces.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Yet even as Pym stalked him, slept with him, and pined after him, there was an element of unreality in her ardor, Harvey recalled.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
  • But a year locked up with husband, dog and Netflix creates a strange sense of unreality and vulnerability.
    — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 8 May 2021
  • The air of unreality is further deepened by a soundtrack heavy on percussion, shown throughout the film to be played by drummers in a gym with a basketball hoop dressed as if for sumo wrestling.
    — Christian Lorentzen, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Transitions between the trio of Joes often don’t land, only emphasizing the stagy unreality of the show’s three worlds.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 20 Sep. 2021
  • But by that point, the reunion has already taken on a peculiar sadness, a tinge of unreality that only a cruel shock of daylight and the tears on your pillow will be able to explain.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The whole out-of-time sense of unreality and reality, and recognition and unrecognition.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • That shows the unreality inside the Beltway Bubble.
    — John Seiler, Oc Register, 22 Apr. 2026

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