How to Use real live in a Sentence

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Definition of real livenext
  • Maybe the Dodgers are on the verge of acquiring a real live closer.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
  • But aside from all these jars, Adam had promised over e-mail to show me some real live fairy shrimp, too.
    — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 5 May 2023
  • Dozens of kids stand in line, waiting for their turn to get a selfie in a real live phone booth.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
  • However, no one needs to see the real live train wreck.
    — John Brandon, Forbes, 20 June 2022
  • And this is the first real live performance that’s ever been put out.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Nov. 2023
  • And in a world where people are going to concerts and events again, there is a real live element to doing that.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2022
  • What could be more enticing that seeing a real live whale in Cincinnati?
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Everyone knows that real live music is the best, and there are a myriad of free-of-charge visual content in this world now.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Some noted that the stuff animal looked like a real live animal from afar.
    — oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Ditto the necessity of talking to a real live human who works at the hotel.
    — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 29 July 2014
  • Instead, perhaps next season Kings fans will hear from a real live beat reporter, informing us how the team won.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2021
  • Finally, on your Zoomiest days, program in some time with at least one real live human.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 14 July 2022
  • The 2021 show, which incorporated a host of novel aspects to make up for the lack of a real live audience, was hard to judge, as a quarantine-era one-off.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Only a real live human could do the Charleston with such fluidity.
    — Lauren Goode, Wired, 20 Aug. 2021
  • In fairness to anybody that does charge tickets [for their livestream shows], pulling off a high-end livestream is probably more expensive than playing a real live concert.
    — Quentin Singer, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Risks notwithstanding, other artists on the bill were grateful to be performing at last with real live people in the audience.
    — Blake Ells, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2021
  • But every year, a large portion of his contemporary issues class was white, conservative and spoiling for a chance to debate a real live liberal.
    — Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Too often, theater doesn’t use that sense that this story could go anywhere or these characters could go anywhere at any time and anything could happen on that stage, with these real live human beings, at any moment.
    — Liz Appel, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Many say that African countries are playing a dangerous game – quite possibly with real live ammunition.
    — Paul Tilsley, Fox News, 29 July 2023
  • With real live shows, this would include not only an evaluation of the act’s performance onstage but also the overall atmosphere and what was going on in the space itself, including the reaction of the audience such as cheers and applause.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Panerai is known not only for creating durable tool watches but for letting real live adventurers break them in while engaging in real life adventures.
    — Carol Besler, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Delphi learned its moral compass by analyzing more than 1.7 million ethical judgments by real live humans.
    — New York Times, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Some 4,000 people packed into a Croatian stadium last Sunday for a strange and exotic spectacle: a real live tennis match, between top-level professionals, in front of fans.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 23 June 2020
  • Cockrell specializes in the mental health of ultra-high net worth individuals and their families (including some real live billionaires).
    — Byjenna Schnuer, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Presumably, if real live babies or other human models were unavailable, Martiny and his apprentices might have resorted to using mannequins as models.
    — Mackenzie Chung Fegan, Bon Appétit, 15 July 2022
  • Satisfaction, not frustration, awaits those who ascribe genius insect math to a real live Mathematician.
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2013
  • Consumers can engage in personal conversations with virtual or real live experts.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021

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