Example sentences for: ego

How can you use “ego” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But Roudinesco neither takes pleasure in nor makes intriguing sense of the fact that Lacan's theories "denounced the omnipotence of the ego in general, though he himself asserted the supremacy of his own."

  • Barry Humphries (also known for his alter ego Dame Edna Everage) is an Australian with a sharp ear for language.

  • (He quotes himself in his books, the sure sign of a towering ego.)

  • That lack of insight was shown by Robert Louis Stevenson's good Dr. Jekyll ( The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , 1886), whose impressive bodily transformations to his evil alter ego made Jekyll-and-Hyde descriptive of persons who alternately demonstrate good and evil behavior.

  • I eavesdropped as he massaged the ego of Tom Jermoluk, the CEO of Excite.


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