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.
  • 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
  • Others, like Jekyll and Hyde, are a recipe for disaster.
    Dede Henley, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The Jekyll and Hyde Cavs continue to be perplexingly lousy on the road.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 15 Jan. 2023
  • The Jekyll and Hyde of it, to be a woman, becomes impossible.
    Emily Longeretta, Variety, 7 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Merrill had a darker side — a Jekyll and Hyde-like split personality — that frequently showed itself on social media.
    al, 11 Apr. 2021
  • 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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