How to Use coloring book in a Sentence

coloring book

noun
  • I bought my son a new coloring book.
  • Books, coloring books and crafts are great ways to pass the time.
    Jennifer Jhon, South Florida Parenting, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Each child received a coloring book and a box of Crayons.
    Todd Shields, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • But the Google Pixel 6a might be the first product to leak via a coloring book.
    Nathaniel Mott, PCMAG, 29 Jan. 2022
  • The event will have free ice cream, coloring books and crayons available.
    Courant Community, 5 Sep. 2017
  • She's asked for coloring books, crayons and a pink outfit.
    Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The children had to wait for an hour after the injections, and the staff gave them a coloring book and rice crispy treats.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • But what’s so bad about, for instance, a coloring book?
    Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Sometimes the simple things can help calm them – a stuffed toy, crayons and a coloring book, and other items.
    Sharon Woods Harris, The Seattle Times, 10 Feb. 2018
  • There's even a kid-friendly area with a play space, chalkboard wall, and coloring books.
    Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 12 July 2019
  • This book is also an adult coloring book and one of my favorites.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2021
  • The home store has partnered with artists across the country to make a coloring book that people of all ages will enjoy.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 5 May 2020
  • Adult coloring books are available in-stores and in mobile app stores.
    Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 23 May 2019
  • Maps the researchers created to show the turtles’ routes look like the scribbles in a child’s coloring book.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2022
  • All of that started with a coloring book, all that started with some crayons, some markers and some free time.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 11 Oct. 2021
  • One young girl worked a coloring book in the first half, barely glancing up at what was going on around here.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • One wall was adorned with pictures that appeared to come from coloring books.
    Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, azcentral, 28 June 2018
  • If not, get some canvasses (or coloring books), some bevvies, and throw your own.
    Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Motherhood is full of peaks and valleys, and this snarky adult coloring book full of memes brings humor to it all.
    Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Meeting with child cancer patients, the duke and duchess colored in coloring books and played games with them.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Her grandmother then pulls one of the colored pencils from the stack still clutched in her left hand and lifts the coloring book from her stomach.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Cupid Ojala has done a coloring book in which men have penises where there hands should be, which strikes me as awkward.
    Thomas Hine, Philly.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • To download a coloring book entry, go to lorainpubliclibrary.org.
    cleveland, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Spend many a day coloring in scenes from his life with this charming adult coloring book.
    Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2021
  • The city’s scribes published some great fiction, non-fiction and a pretty great coloring book in 2021.
    Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Most coloring book pages are the standard 8.5 x 11 inches.
    Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2020
  • There’s a reason people buy adult coloring books—even social media seems to scratch the same itch.
    Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 5 Dec. 2019
  • In the front of the store, between racks of plush slippers and coloring books, a yellow bucket caught drips from Tuesday’s rainstorm through a leaky roof.
    Faith E. Pinho, Indianapolis Star, 26 June 2018
  • Nearly half the products cost less than $250, and the cheapest option is a $9 pocket coloring book.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The coloring book, and its much younger cousin the paint-by-numbers, originated as a way to teach adults about art, according to Time.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 Nov. 2019

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