Sample sentences for AUTHENTIC

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real or true

We were struck with the fact, that in all the mass of material of which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

There is no consensus about whether Neff's hidden message is authentic.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
It was short but brimming with authentic grief and love.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song
On the other hand our freedom obliges us to make something of ourselves, to live 'authentically' or 'truly.'
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
Amongst other authentic documents, we here find a great many relating to the affairs of New England and Virginia during this period.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
I responded to her authentic and down-to-earth personality.
Jaycee Lee Dugard -- A Stolen Life
Las Vegas is now so contrived and artificial that it has become something authentic, a place unlike any other.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
The couple watched the films together, and Oswald even told Marina that the films felt authentic.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
But what is authentic about it, I keep asking Anatole.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
The tower hid the older brick sections of the hospital, whose architecture felt authentic and aligned with the neighborhood.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
I could hear the authentic sorrow in her voice, and I paused, unable to sum up the last couple of years into a single statement.
Nicholas Sparks -- Dear John
A Senator from a Western state hurried up to him, hand outstretched, babbling on in what he apparently believed to be the authentic Pima tongue.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
"I appreciate you making things look authentic, but you didn't need to go that far."
Kiera Cass -- The Selection
'If I'm going to do this, I want to be authentic about it.
Sarah Dessen -- Lock and Key
They know that we like to feel that things are authentic.
Ally Condie -- Matched
It's a good laugh, authentic, unforced; I like it, but I am feverish.
Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
I ordered some authentic Chinese food—pig's intestines and sea slugs.
Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
But it was absolutely authentic, he swore; he knew for a fact Taiwanese cuckoos, especially hem-orrhoidal ones, looked and sounded precisely like that.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
It's pretty authentic, actually.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
I'm trying for the authentic camping experience."
Gayle Forman -- Where She Went

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