Thesaurus / alter ego

alter ego

EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB

Ronnie was my alter ego till I was fourteen: so much so that I had no other friend.

Altogether, he is as miserable and forlorn a wretch as one would care to see, and his alter ego is hypocrisy.

Dr. Ferguson had a friend—not another self, indeed, an alter ego, for friendship could not exist between two beings exactly alike.

Inversely, the animal is regarded as a double of the man, as his alter ego.

Where don Ramón could not go in person, don Andrés would be present for him, as the chief's alter ego.

THE TORRENTVICENTE BLASCO IBAEZ

Has each of us an alter ego, who can really behave, elsewhere?

It is the care, the management of this house that I have thought of intrusting to you as to an alter ego.

THE NABOBALPHONSE DAUDET

His alter ego was Delaroche, to whom he gave his daughter in marriage.

BALZACFREDERICK LAWTON

The nervous vapidity of my first rattle, says the alter ego Vivian, soon subsided into a continuous flow of easy nonsense.

In Achilles, the other self, the alter ego, is the stronger man.

THE SECRET LIFE ELIZABETH BISLAND

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