EGO in a Sentence

Learn EGO from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for EGO, such as:
1. Richard has the biggest ego of anyone I've ever met.
2. They retain their egotism, and add to it many other egos.
3. His ego is as large as the Space Shuttle, all guests dislike him.
4. The simple reality is that anybody who wants to be the leader of this country is some kind of masochist with a massively inflated ego.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of EGO
ego
 n.  your consciousness of your own identity
 n.  (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind
Classic Sentence:
1  He was reading one of the latest scientific-religious books: he had a streak of a spurious sort of religion in him, and was egocentrically concerned with the future of his own ego.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
2  He used to wonder at the shallow psychology of those who conceive the ego in man as a thing simple, permanent, reliable, and of one essence.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
3  This is as ridiculous a way of resisting, as juvenal thought it of fighting; ubi tu pulsas, ego vapulo tantum.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  They retain their egotism, and add to it many other egos.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
Example Sentence:
1  His ego is as large as the Space Shuttle, all guests dislike him.
2  The simple reality is that anybody who wants to be the leader of this country is some kind of masochist with a massively inflated ego.
3  Richard has the biggest ego of anyone I've ever met.
4  This need for self-esteem can be carefully nurtured so that the horse will want to perform to boost its own ego even further.
5  He has seen the disruptive effects of big egos elsewhere in LENR research and wants to avoid the destructive patterns of rivalry and secrecy which can result.