How to Use cel in a Sentence

cel

noun

• The powder, or toner, never clung perfectly, and sometimes flaked off of the lines a bit, due to the slickness of the cel.
  — Gia Yetikyel, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2021
• Walt’s own Mickey Mouse — in the top-cel gallery of Disney vocalizations. . . .
  — Washington Post, 27 May 2021
• Legions of inkers and painters (all of whom were women, by the way) painstakingly finished each cel by hand and prepared them to be photographed.
  — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2017
• After drying, the cel was then turned over for painters to paint the characters within those lines, to get them as opaque as possible.
  — Gia Yetikyel, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2021
• The Sterns' cels are being conserved in California, Costa said, but photographs of them are on view at the home.
  — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• The soft colors and cel-shading have an ethereal quality and those visuals are fitting for a game about death.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 22 July 2019
• Kite’s main treatment, axi-cel, is on the scientific vanguard of drugs that use the body’s immune system to fight cancer, known as cell therapy.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2017
• The cel shading is crisp, the lines are as expressive as the original material, and in some ways the overall presentation is cleaner and nicer looking than the anime.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2018
• Last year, as the bitcoin and wider crypto market went into meltdown following China's expulsion of crypto miners and traders, the cel price remained stable.
  — Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• But not all data points are flashing red: The FDA granted liso-cel what is known as priority review status earlier this year, which is typically a good sign.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2020
• That therapy could potentially replace Mylotarg when paired with its edited bone marrow transplant — a treatment Vor calls trem-cel.
  — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022
• And the devastation is depicted with cinematic beauty by the art team of Bouma, Rockefeller and Sun, whose every panel could pass for an animation cel.
  — Christopher Healy, New York Times, 12 May 2017
• The Japanese giant contends that the best approach to carbon neutrality is with a mix of BEVs, conventional and plug-in hybrids and hydrogen fuel-cel vehicles.
  — Paul A. Eisenstein, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2021
• The company eventually changed its name to Rankin/Bass, and its work toggled between stop-motion and traditional cel animation.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• On the other hand, the studio’s Ink and Paint Department—where the animators’ character drawings were painstakingly copied onto clear plastic sheets, or cels, then colored in—was made up almost entirely of women.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
• The Sterns collected cels, which are individual scenes from animated movies.
  — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• Computer animation encompasses a range from the flatter, cel-shaded style to the more photo-realistic kind.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2021
• Mixing media and employing all manner of animation techniques from cel drawings to step printing of his own hands working with the raw materials of the film itself, Lei has fashioned an eye-catching picture of China during these dark times.
  — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 4 Feb. 2022
• Two unidentified artists paint animation cels in Disney Studios' inking and painting department, Burbank, Calif., 1943.
  — Nathalia Holt, Time, 22 Oct. 2019
• Called axi-cel, the Kite medicine stems from a yearslong scientific collaboration with the NCI, underscoring the government agency’s central role in developing immunotherapies.
  — Thomas M. Burton, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024