How to Use cartoon in a Sentence

cartoon

noun
  • The kids are watching cartoons.
  • She enjoys reading the cartoons in the Sunday paper.
  • In the game, there’s a white line circling the cartoon planet.
    WIRED, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Fraser played a spoof of Tarzan, that was based on a cartoon series.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Well, whoever put out the one last that depicted Prescott in a cartoon image as a deer frozen by headlights, this one’s on you.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Elvis literally reduces a cultural icon to a gaudy cartoon.
    Armond White, National Review, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The museum could even do exhibits about the movement and treat it less of a cartoon than it’s currently being treated by historians.
    Vulture, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The launch sparked outrage as the company promoted the J.V. death machine with cartoon skulls and crossbones stylized as boys and girls.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 17 Jan. 2023
  • These gags drew their shock-value humor by juxtaposing something innocent with something extreme, like when the words were frosted onto a cake or said by a cartoon pony.
    David MacK, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Sorry, but goofing around with a 54-year-old Hanna-Barbera cartoon shouldn’t ruin anyone’s childhood.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 12 Jan. 2023
  • In the living room, the sounds of cartoons filled the air.
    Koba Ryckewaert Ilvy Njiokiktjien, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
  • In the ’90s, there was a cartoon drawn by I-don’t-remember-who.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 June 2023
  • He and his cartoon avatar dressed in red long johns and a Napoleon bicorne hat.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Would bright pink lipstick, a cartoon print tie, or a blue steel pout do the trick?
    Sofia Shchukina, NPR, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Solve the puzzle to get your bearings—and to reveal the caption to the cartoon below.
    Patrick Berry, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
  • She's also set to voice the cartoon version of herself in the series.
    Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
  • Sarula Bao’s covers, cartoons, and more at the Condé Nast Store.
    Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Most of the charm is in collecting the cartoon cats and watching them do silly cat stuff.
    Jay Peters, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Park spent a good deal of time watching the Disney Channel, cartoons, and movies like Mean Girls.
    Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2024
  • This week the boy sat on his bicycle in the living room, watching cartoons.
    Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
  • In the cartoon, the Hamas official has a woman and children bound to his body by rope, with a baby tied to his head.
    Alexandra Bruell, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
  • On the back of the jacket was black embroidery of the face of SpongeBob, the main character of the Nickelodeon cartoon series.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Then there was the dilemma of how to break the news to his sixth grade daughter, who was a student in one of Mr. Paty’s classes but did not see the cartoons.
    Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Enlarge / Run as fast as those blurry cartoon feet will let you, Mario!
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2023
  • In cartoons and comics, this Gotham City bad girl gave Batman fits alongside her on-again, off-again beau, the Joker.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024
  • Their logo is a fierce-looking cartoon Blaster, ready to charge with a stick of dynamite in its jaws.
    Andy Fies, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Don’t be fooled by the pink cartoon cover of Kuang’s book; this is a heavy read, not a lighthearted escape.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 May 2024
  • This month’s cartoon…Here’s our cartoon for April, by Ian Foley.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Past creations include a stack of gifts in the shape of Curious George for an adult devotee of the cartoon monkey.
    Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2023
  • This month’s cartoon…Here’s our cartoon for May, by Ian Foley.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 3 May 2024

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