How to Use alter ego in a Sentence

alter ego

noun
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  • Like her alter ego, Raveena has soaked up the knowledge and is ready to share.
    — Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 17 June 2022
  • Then, one more wipe and she’s M.C., her masc alter ego.
    — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 17 June 2021
  • The man — Method or Smith — flips through alter egos like the pages of his beloved comic books.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 15 June 2024
  • 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
  • Over the years, Slusher became a sort of bad-cop alter ego for Knight.
    — oregonlive, 11 June 2021
  • Tyler makes a grand entrance as his drag alter ego Tundra, and then the game talk starts.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 12 May 2022
  • This proved to be one of many nails in the coffin for Bray Wyatt’s once white-hot alter ego.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • No doubt about which of them is the filmmaker’s alter ego.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Suga Suga and his alter ego Agust D are coming to a theater near you.
    — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 7 June 2024
  • All the while, two dozen bloodied replicas of her Scarlet alter ego trailed her around the stage.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The project was released under his alter ego Agust D, and the tune was credited to the same name.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Nakata was in a sense my alter ego, a projection of me.
    — Haruki Murakami, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The visual features the reemergence of Megan’s alter ego Tina Snow.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2021
  • 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
  • The concept record, Eminem said, concerns the last bow of his alter ego, Slim Shady.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 12 July 2024
  • Ooh, a glimpse of Red Hulk, mutant alter ego of Thaddeus Ross.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 July 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
  • Chameleon's alter ego turned out to be the one and only Wiz Khalifa.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 27 May 2021
  • The Jews, or at least their cosmopolitan alter egos, inevitably came in for abuse too.
    — Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The 'Mad Scene,' in which the flute acts as Lucia's alter ego, is a fun tightrope act of parallel scales and echoing trills.
    — Rob Hubbard, Star Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Eddie and his alter ego are back in the sequel, which is silly and chaotic.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021
  • And Davis made the confusion between him and his alter ego a running joke.
    — Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
  • The loss of Eileen and return of the self-pitying Orwell alter ego are certainly linked.
    — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The range is created under the performer’s lifestyle brand Ricky Regal, an alter ego.
    — Mikelle Street, WWD, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The man with the alter ego of Joker collapses in a gruesomely bloody heap and dies, while the inmate laughs — and, out of focus and almost out of frame, cuts his own mouth into a wider smile.
    — Jack Smart, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024

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