How to Use doppelgänger in a Sentence

doppelgänger

noun
  • In the story, the character is haunted by a doppelgänger.
  • The doppelgänger just needs to look the part and learn some basic lingo.
    Mike Miller, EW.com, 29 Jan. 2025
  • And then, authorities link what seems to be a doppelganger of the husband to the case.
    CBS News, 20 Jan. 2021
  • And are his army of doppelgangers ready to really commit to the bit?
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Jordan spent the last two seasons with the Nets, the Lakers’ East Coast doppelganger.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
  • One of the doppelgangers even chooses the name William as a Riker tribute.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
  • The salted cream cold foam is a doppelganger for the sleeper hit of boba shops, cheese tea.
    Serena Dai, Bon Appétit, 13 July 2022
  • Back at the apartment, my doppelganger smoothed her fingers across the chocolate, their wrappers smooth and cool to the touch.
    Hazlitt, 28 June 2022
  • In the photo, Maisie is in total zen mode while getting her face touched up by the Kit doppelganger.
    Meagan Fredette, Teen Vogue, 22 May 2019
  • Stick with the video until the end when Franklin runs onto the field and encounters his doppelganger.
    Tim Bielik, cleveland.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Was it written in the script that he’d be interviewed by a doppelgänger?
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Click through to see the many twins (and a few bonus doppelgangers!) Riverdale has already bestowed upon us.
    refinery29.com, 12 May 2018
  • Jon-El sees his doppelganger and tries to take him down while Jordan tries to step in and mediate.
    Washington Post, 3 May 2022
  • Jones, serving his 17th year in prison for purse snatching, informed his lawyers, who learned the doppelganger lived near the area where the crime occurred.
    Max Londberg, kansascity.com, 12 June 2017
  • Mia and her doppelganger were born days apart in May 2006 — one a Gemini, the other a Taurus.
    Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Thunberg's doppelganger is one of three children in the photo from 1898.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 21 Nov. 2019
  • But send Iguodala and Livingston doppelgangers to Cleveland and that would work, too.
    Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 15 June 2017
  • That name did indeed adorn a space shuttle, a Soviet doppelganger born of the Cold War.
    National Geographic, 12 Apr. 2016
  • Starlight makes her peace (begrudgingly) with the fact that Hughie’s spent the last week screwing her doppelganger.
    Alex Raiman, EW.com, 18 July 2024
  • In it, Moss' character moves with her family to a new house... where a doppelganger lives in the attic.
    Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2022
  • Speaking of Tonies, his doppelganger Joe finds a second idol.
    Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • On top of being doppelgangers, the other man had the similar-sounding name of Rick.
    Mary Emily O'Hara, NBC News, 12 June 2017
  • The second act drifts into a lukewarm doppelganger arc that rings familiar and drops the stakes.
    oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Here’s a rundown of the film’s key players and their Hollywood doppelgangers.
    Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2019
  • The idea is to reclaim her space within the industry via a pretty doppelganger.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Celebs took to Rihanna's comments to express their shock at the singer's doppelganger.
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 24 July 2019
  • From gobbling up handbags, to taking on an Italian doppelganger in court, Big Red has seen it all.
    J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 10 Nov. 2022
  • There’s this doppelganger who was a little bit depressed.
    Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2017
  • And a recent photo has shown us that the last few years haven't been all too kind to him - the forward now looking like Gordon Ramsay's doppelganger.
    SI.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • And then there are the cats—dozens of them, prowling or stoic doppelgangers of the real-life felines who roamed Abercrombie’s Hyde Park Victorian.
    Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025

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