Sample Sentences for
surreal
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    Lords of the surreal.  (source)
    surreal = fantastic imagery, or combinations of things and events that don't go together
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    The surreal experience with the roomful of books and the stunned, broken woman walked alongside her.†  (source)
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    Then I found myself in surreal surroundings.†  (source)
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    The surreal whirlwind of the preceding weeks had left Walter devastated.†  (source)
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    The absurd theater can also have certain surrealistic features.†  (source)
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    Almost hiding there, though I was sure—even as young and earnest and fearful as I was—it was not just from me; it was from that place and time, the whole picture and small detail, from the homely, dim structure about us, the squalor of the heavy air, from the ennui and restiveness of the entire encampment, the surreally distant war, and then of course from who I was as well.†  (source)
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    Moving silently, we followed a group through another set of double doors, the surrealness of it giving me ill-advised giggles that I quickly swallowed.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    When I look back now, it's almost surreal.†  (source)
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    Steam rose from the chasm, adding a surrealistic flavor to the spectacle.†  (source)
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    All at once, everything was surreally normal.†  (source)
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    I'd been in some pretty surreal situations.†  (source)
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    To him, there was something surrealistic about the scene: a dozen men in a long, whitewashed room in Topeka, rebuilding a crash.†  (source)
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    "I mean, I love you, Nick," Andie said, here, surreally, on my sister's sofa.†  (source)
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