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Example sentences for "second self"

  • Pons' adviser, you will have a second self in him, you see.

  • In this city of Paris he lived as a nightingale lives among the thickets; and for twenty years he sang on, mateless, till he met with a second self in Pons.

  • Alter ipse amicus=--A friend is a second self.

  • Whatever a man has to effect must emanate from him as a second self; and how would this be possible were not his first self entirely pervaded by it?

  • Verus amicus est is qui est tanquam alter idem=--A 20 true friend is he who is, as it were, a second self.

  • Such was my scheme for keeping my second self invisible.

  • He was densely distressed--and perhaps I should have sympathized with him if I had been able to detach my mental vision from the unsuspected sharer of my cabin as though he were my second self.

  • A little before supper, feeling more restless than ever, I rejoined, for a moment, my second self.

  • He was densely distressed--and perhaps I should have sympathised with him if I had been able to detach my mental vision from the unsuspected sharer of my cabin as though he were my second self.

  • But you did nothing but weep over my sorrow, as though you were my second self.

  • Observe how far I have convinced myself that you are my second self, not only in matters which concern me personally, but even in those which concern my friends.

  • Having demanded fifteen legates, he named me first in the list, and said that he should regard me in all things as a second self.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "second self" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accuse myself; other churches; second base; second battalion; second brother; second chapter; second coming; second growth; second home; second later; second letter; second nature; second officer; second pair; second series; second session; second volume; second voyage; second wife; secondary consideration; secondary importance; secondary personality; secondary schools; secondary sense; secondary syphilis; what land