How to Use alter ego in a Sentence

alter ego

noun
  • There’s no façade or alter ego.
    — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • So Jirko is like her alter ego.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Others have an alter ego on the job.
    — Dan Pompei, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Mother Mary is an apt choice of alter ego.
    — Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
  • That’s not the sort of answer her alter ego would have given.
    — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
  • So both Bruce and his big, green alter ego may be done after that.
    — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 2 May 2018
  • Like her alter ego, Raveena has soaked up the knowledge and is ready to share.
    — Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 17 June 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
  • His new alter ego is something Soo-jung knows about and can use as leverage.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • One of the characters in the story is your alter ego, which doesn't come through.
    — CBS News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Tyler makes a grand entrance as his drag alter ego Tundra, and then the game talk starts.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 12 May 2022
  • King Kylie was an alter ego borderline.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Eddie and his alter ego are back in the sequel, which is silly and chaotic.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 30 Sep. 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
  • Chip Chrome is Rutherford's alter ego in all senses of the world.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Over the years, Slusher became a sort of bad-cop alter ego for Knight.
    — oregonlive, 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
  • Klein has no eyes for anyone but himself and his alter ego, and those eyes are the color of a winter sea.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The Jews, or at least their cosmopolitan alter egos, inevitably came in for abuse too.
    — Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • And Davis made the confusion between him and his alter ego a running joke.
    — Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Suga Suga and his alter ego Agust D are coming to a theater near you.
    — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 7 June 2024
  • Margo writes scripts, plans costumes and makeup, blocks scenes, and dreams up plot arcs for her erotic-alien alter ego.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Chameleon's alter ego turned out to be the one and only Wiz Khalifa.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 27 May 2021
  • Quil Lemons has six alter egos, the most famous of whom is dubbed Glitterboy.
    — Allure, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Plus, my alter ego, the Kissing Bandit, is more of a lover than a fighter.
    — Arie Luyendyk Jr., PEOPLE.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Guests will also be stalked by The Fiend, Bray’s sadistic alter ego.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 29 July 2025
  • Pham donned a neon pink wig and a vest, channeling Lily’s alter ego, Lola.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Or, rather, as his fiancée's alter ego, Sansa Stark from Game of Thrones.
    — Krystin Arneson, Glamour, 28 Oct. 2018

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