How to Use Jekyll and Hyde in a Sentence
Jekyll and Hyde
noun- He's a real Jekyll and Hyde who can become violent without warning.
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Smart move by Stearns, and see how far this Jekyll and Hyde team can go.
—Brittany Ghiroli, The Athletic, 30 July 2024
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As the sun and Uranus clash, someone’s Jekyll and Hyde act is shocking!
—USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2024
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The Jekyll and Hyde of it, to be a woman, becomes impossible.
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 7 Apr. 2023
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Some dudes go Jekyll and Hyde, studious and committed on the job, a hedonistic man on the town.
—Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2023
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The Jekyll and Hyde Cavs continue to be perplexingly lousy on the road.
—Chris Fedor, cleveland, 15 Jan. 2023
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The Browns have been one of the league’s great Jekyll and Hyde teams, alternating wins and losses over the last six weeks.
—Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 26 Nov. 2021
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Skubal has been a little bit of a Jekyll and Hyde so far this season, with some blowup innings ruining some of his efforts.
—Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2023
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While a straightforward tale on the surface, Jekyll and Hyde is ultimately an inkblot test in narrative form.
—Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 8 Aug. 2025
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But White gave her an eloquent kind of dissonance—Jekyll and Hyde, retrofitted for the age of the feminine mystique.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2022
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At least this current version of the Cowboys, even with some Jekyll and Hyde tendencies, has a chance to create its own history.
—Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2023
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Merrill had a darker side — a Jekyll and Hyde-like split personality — that frequently showed itself on social media.
—al, 11 Apr. 2021
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Bello’s regression this season has been shocking to behold, and his Jekyll and Hyde act when starting games versus coming out as a bulk reliever defies explanation.
—Mac Cerullo, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026
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Robinson and the writers do a very effective job of conveying how Alex could be taken in by Sean, who has a Jekyll and Hyde personality tied in part to his drinking.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2021
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In this sort of Jekyll and Hyde sci-fi story, Kirk is divided into a Positive and Negative version of himself due to a transporter error.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 22 Mar. 2026
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Davenports, a pub and brewing company based in Birmingham, England, acquired the pub formerly called Jekyll and Hyde earlier this year.
—WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
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This Jekyll and Hyde existence has been most evident at The Racecourse, where a combined 102 goals — 49 by the opposition — were scored across 29 league and cup games.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 6 May 2026
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The Carolina Panthers’ Jekyll and Hyde nature was in full force on Sunday in a gigantic 31-28 win against the Los Angeles Rams at Bank of America Stadium.
—Charlotte Observer, 30 Nov. 2025
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Oh, and who could forget how the monstrosity known as Doomsday is turned into a Jekyll and Hyde paramedic named Davis Bloome (Sam Witwer), while Zod (Callum Blue) borrows a page out of Captain Howdy's playbook by possessing Lex's body.
—Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 13 May 2026
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