Sentence examples for this was a reality from inspiring English sources

"This was a reality check".

If this was a reality TV show, we'd call it the billionaire ballot".

Everyone I contacted, Citizens Advice, my MP, Shelter, all informed me that this was a reality that I could do nothing about: according to the new government who had made these cuts, I was no longer eligible for the support I had been receiving.

(Whatever his actual beliefs, this was a reality the relatively populist Obama ran into back in 2009, too, when he seemed stuck with Clinton administration veterans).

This was a reality for many people in the baby boomer generation, and even those of us who were more like Aesop's fabled ants -- spending the summer busily gathering up food for the winter while the grasshopper basked in the sun -- saw our personal savings drop when the financial freefall started in 2008.

"Unfortunately, this is a reality".

This is a reality show.

This is a reality check.

"This is a reality of apartment living".

This is a reality show, right?

This is a reality, and this is what happened".