Sentence examples for were real not from inspiring English sources

The names in the article were real, not fictitious.

And these achievements were real — not the third act of a screenplay.

The manifest sincerity of his conviction and the action that followed upon it were real, not symbolic".

These leaders were real, not dummies invented and packaged by image makers from an advertising agency or public relations firm.

On Aug. 2, when news agencies began issuing dispatches, a quick look convinced me that the Legionnaires' cases were real, not another false alarm.

I remember thinking, back when I was 6, that my mother just didn't understand me, that she couldn't or wouldn't understand that my fears were real, not imagined, not concocted for want of extra-special bedtime attention.

The stakes are real, not rhetorical.

They are real not imaginary.

It was real, not fake.

And that example is real, not hypothetical.

The characters in Packer's book are real, not fictional.