Example Sentences

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I think the film intends these youngsters to be a semirealistic gang of X-Men, but it doesn’t give them any dialogue or individuality; they’re treated more like the orphans in “Oliver Twist.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025

Feeding the predicted gestures into an existing image-generation algorithm led to semirealistic videos, as seen in the video.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 21, 2019

Long, semirealistic novel laid in British West Africa, revolving around the defeat of a handsome, English-educated native chieftain in his attempts to improve the lot of his people.

From Time Magazine Archive

This semirealistic story of farm life, adapted from Gladys Hasty Carroll's novel, shows New England apple snatchers scratching at their arid meadows, bravely but without much recompense.

From Time Magazine Archive