How to Use alter ego in a Sentence

alter ego

noun
  • Like her alter ego, Raveena has soaked up the knowledge and is ready to share.
    Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 17 June 2022
  • That’s not the sort of answer her alter ego would have given.
    Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
  • One of the characters in the story is your alter ego, which doesn't come through.
    CBS News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Emilio—who seems a bit like an alter ego for the artist who thought him up—emerges as a kind of centrifuge.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • Tyler makes a grand entrance as his drag alter ego Tundra, and then the game talk starts.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 12 May 2022
  • Bryan Patrick Miller in costume as his alter ego, the Zombie Hunter.
    Paul Larosa, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Of course Cortez is still sort of edgy, but Niño Brown is very much an alter ego that kind of just doesn’t care at all.
    Jordan A. Rothacker, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
  • All the while, two dozen bloodied replicas of her Scarlet alter ego trailed her around the stage.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Nakata was in a sense my alter ego, a projection of me.
    Haruki Murakami, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Having an alter ego gives you the freedom to take risks and try new things without the fear of judgment.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2024
  • So, my first alter ego, Super Richard, was built to be the advocate for Todd.
    Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • In the message, Teixidor speaks to her 30-year-old alter ego.
    Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The Jews, or at least their cosmopolitan alter egos, inevitably came in for abuse too.
    Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Kittle talked about his fondness for wrestling and alter egos, with one arm tattooed with good guys and one with bad guys.
    Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The Skyhawk is Zdarsky’s companion, friend, maybe even his alter ego.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Granger Smith’s alter ego Earl Dibbles, Jr., who’s still rocking the overalls.
    Allyson Portee, Forbes, 12 June 2022
  • However, once a year in the city’s Christmas play, Opatrny’s alter ego emerged.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Of all the ways to script a mental breakdown, why choose to make Van delve into an entirely new life with a French alter ego?
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 23 May 2022
  • Your debut album tells the story of your alter ego, The Troubadour Sanchez.
    Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Is that supposed to plant a seed for her superhero alter ego Isis someday?
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Her other alter ego was an orangutan, which referred to itself in the third person.
    Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • His latest prank is to pretend to be his alter ego, Toni Erdmann, to get into her work circle.
    cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The Neon Revolt blog hasn’t been updated since Cornero was tied to his online alter ego.
    Will Sommer, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023
  • John Barron, Trump’s gossip-stoking alter ego, was good at his job.
    Curbed, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Beazer was a very private man who guarded his Fang alter ego, according to those who knew him well.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 30 Jan. 2022
  • In Gray’s film, his 12-year-old alter ego, Paul Graff, is an aspiring artist from a working-class family in Queens.
    Steve Chagollan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The name Cassie, shared by both her protagonists, also feels like something of a namesake — or an alter ego.
    Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • Slater will star as Mulgarath, whose alter ego is Dr. Dorian Brauer.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 24 Aug. 2022
  • On the cover art for the single, Doja showed off her new alter ego, bob haircut, and a gave fans a sneak peak into the aesthetic of new album First of All.
    Alexandra Schneider, Seventeen, 23 June 2023
  • But on Thursday night, the Memphis Grizzlies got a glimpse of the Cavaliers’ alter ego -- the ferocious junkyard dogs.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 3 Feb. 2023

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