Example sentences for: two-faced

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

  • More questionable are the bits where he paddles casually through a tub of preserved viscera from some long-gone sufferer from situs inversus (mirror-reversed organs) and succumbs to laughter at the sight of Ditto, the amazing two-faced pig.

  • Among the items that he enjoyed catching were the ambiguous headlines, which he dubbed “two-faced heads.”

  • To postulate that all language is two-faced runs counter to everyday reality, where people seem perfectly capable of talking to others without any slippage in meaning.

  • The next day Wei was reported as having called British foreign secretary Robin Cook "two-faced" and a "coward" for failing to join him in a photo call and allegedly keeping him away from the press.

  • In Fowler's Modern English Usage one of the more intriguing entries is Legerdemain in Two Senses . Under that heading he points out the sneaky way in which one word is often two-faced in the sense that its first meaning gets switched when it is used the second time in a sentence.


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