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doppelganger

NOUN
  1. a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart

How To Use doppelganger In A Sentence

  • Sick of his persona - delicate emotions paired off with caustic cynicism - he creates a bogus doppelganger to hide behind.
  • As such, video game enemies in sibling-based stories are more likely to be doppelgängers, shadows or doubles of the player-characters.
  • Their debut album Doppelganger, which was written and recorded in just three months, is out on Monday.
  • It is a compelling tale of doppelgängers and magicians.
  • If the actress is merely a doppelgänger, you have not offended your cousin with the idea that you thought such a thing was possible.
  • The history of doppelgängers and doubles, you see, is intimately bound up with human mortality and the origins of image making.
  • 'The doppelgänger selves reflected in our media are a lot like, but not exactly, ourselves. Times, Sunday Times
  • But others don't care if it's scientific nonsense because, hey, it's just a conceit, and there's a lot of thematic intricacy to be wrought in mirroring the protagonist through a non-supernatural analogue of the fantasy/horror doppelganger: switch critical faculties to "metaphor", roll up the sleeves, and get stuck into interpreting the text. Narrative Grammars
  • ‘Each actor had a different reaction to having his or her doppelgänger around,’ he says.
  • Some lookalikes are hired to entertain at clubs and parties: they learn to sing like their doppelgänger so the crowd think they are getting the real thing. Times, Sunday Times
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