How to Use alter ego in a Sentence

alter ego

noun
  • Beyoncé shimmied in the guise of her alter ego, Sasha Fierce.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Joe Mantello played the main character of Ned Weeks, the alter ego of Kramer.
    Mark Kennedy, The Denver Post, 27 May 2020
  • My interactions with this alter ego have been solely transactional.
    Jeanne Sager, SELF, 8 July 2020
  • In the episode, Virgil (whose alter ego is Static Shock) spends the night at a white friend’s house, only to find out his friend's father is racist.
    Ni’kesia Pannell, Woman's Day, 3 July 2020
  • The fictional Namgoong perhaps figures as Bong’s alter ego: the absent, godlike designer of the drama and chaos unfolding on-screen.
    Ed Park, The New York Review of Books, 23 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In it, Boulard plays her past alter ego, fashion journalist Mademoiselle Agnès.
    Jennifer Weil, WWD, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The show premiered in 2009 — well before Glover debuted his Childish Gambino rap alter ego and released music.
    Victoria Edel, People.com, 28 Oct. 2024

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