How to Use true to life in a Sentence

true to life

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  • For us, that was our north star: Does this feel true to life?
    — Marisa Roffman, Variety, 18 Aug. 2021
  • That’s more true to life than having to stick to one genre.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 13 June 2023
  • Ross adds that what viewers see on the show is very true to life.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2023
  • But when things become too true to life, Fuqua knows to cut the style and let the actors carry the scene.
    — Eric Farwell, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2023
  • To make Cha Cha feel as true to life as possible, Raiff turned to his crew.
    — Dallas News, 16 June 2022
  • In one scene, which is true to life, Grant gives away her dog right after Cannon gives birth.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • And to articulate a grayness that is more true to life.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2023
  • How much of what 'Sort Of' depicts is true to life for you and how much is aspirational?
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The neon yellow and green on the blurry Fast & Furious machine in the background looks more true to life.
    — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 31 May 2023
  • The result is a pair of headphones that delivers nuanced audio that sounds more true to life in all the right ways.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2023
  • As fans continue to unpack how true to life the biopic is, here’s what to know about the real figures in Winehouse’s life.
    — Armani Syed, TIME, 17 May 2024
  • This one is more true to life, and it’s loosely based on the hollyhocks in Fragonard’s Progress of Love series.
    — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The show continues in this way, bridging joy and tragedy, a blend unusually true to life.
    — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Shy’s backstory sits at odds with current trends in fiction, and feels true to life in a way that the trauma plot often does not.
    — Rachel Connolly, The New Republic, 17 July 2023
  • Starting someplace ordinary, and then making a sudden departure—that feels true to life to me, too.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The weird thing is even detractors of Million Dollar Listing and Serhant will admit that, over time, the show’s presentation of the industry has become more true to life.
    — Andrew Rice, Curbed, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Sweeney also stated that Reality consulted on the wardrobe and with the art department in order to make the visuals as true to life as possible.
    — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 30 May 2023
  • Water in the backdrop shimmers, vehicles have levels of destructibility and movement seems more true to life (no one is really sliding across the map, at least for now).
    — Hawken Miller, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The representation of that featured in Baby Reindeer is actually very true to life.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
  • But the rooms aren’t strictly autobiographical, and the character details aren’t true to life, either.
    — Nina Raemont, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Even if you have never been arrested while on an accidental Ecstasy trip or blown off steam by taking a baseball bat to the hood of a car, there is one way in which Jane’s fictional drama might feel true to life.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The actors, working from a script by Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias, and swept up in Sachs’s characteristically perceptive, subtle dramatic style, make the whims and wills of these people feel consistent and predictable, which is to say, true to life.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Experts say the case could have a significant impact on parody – a form of humor defined by being true to life, wielding criticism by imitation.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • What emerged though are glorious stories, sublime poetry, and characters that are miraculously true to life—once the plays were gathered and sold as works, Shakespeare started to gain traction as a literary giant.
    — Time, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The buildings in the project were created in partnership with painstaking research from the Hellenic Ministry's expert archaeologists, ensuring that the renderings are as true to life as possible.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The writers never define which tribal community Bear and his comrades might belong to—a pointed move that delivers a clear message: Reservation Dogs isn’t interested in gesturing at the subject of identity, but in being true to life.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • As a result, her depiction of glittering balls and sweaty club nights, of elaborate dinners and stressful tutorials, feel authentic, though not every single detail is exactly true to life—or at least, not in my experience.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2023

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