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 living room, the sounds of cartoons filled the air.
  — Koba Ryckewaert Ilvy Njiokiktjien, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• In the best cartoons, the words and the drawings are conjoined.
  — Roz Chast, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
• This cartoon was among those by Szep that won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1974.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2022
• The pair first appeared in 1949 as a part of the Fast and Furry-ous cartoon short.
  — Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 15 Jan. 2025
• Which is to say, that game — and others like it — was a cartoon.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Mar. 2022
• In the game, there’s a white line circling the cartoon planet.
  — WIRED, 20 Jan. 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
• The subset art of the cartoon suffered a rash of losses in 2022.
  — William McDonald, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
• Would bright pink lipstick, a cartoon print tie, or a blue steel pout do the trick?
  — Sofia Shchukina, NPR, 3 Sep. 2024
• This may be a cartoon, but Gunn gives the series’ events a weight that’s earned on its own terms.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
• Bill Gates doesn't believe the hype about cartoon apes.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 15 June 2022
• Brows and lips are the focal points of this cartoon-like makeup look.
  — Taylor Lane, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
• Solve the puzzle to get your bearings—and to reveal the caption to the cartoon below.
  — Patrick Berry, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
• In 2010, a new cartoon premiered with these bold lines.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022
• But the play before the TD looked like something from an old Looney Tunes cartoon.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
• Based on the eponymous Dr. Seuss book, this cartoon can be tricky to locate.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2021
• She's also set to voice the cartoon version of herself in the series.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
• Fraser played a spoof of Tarzan, that was based on a cartoon series.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
• Sarula Bao’s covers, cartoons, and more at the Condé Nast Store.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• Grab a bowl of spaghetti and feast your eyes on this cartoon classic.
  — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com, 30 Nov. 2021
• My grandfather used to record Canal+ and its cartoons and films on VHS.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 16 Dec. 2024
• Most of the charm is in collecting the cartoon cats and watching them do silly cat stuff.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2023
• Maybe instead of rats the cartoon should show sitting ducks.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025
• Throw it back with this 1996 Hanukkah special from the beloved Rugrats cartoon.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 29 Nov. 2022
• The cartoon was a Gary Larson, the one with two dogs in a courtroom full of cats—cat judge, cat lawyers, cat jury.
  — T. Coraghessan Boyle, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• At the nearest bus stop, passengers wait in front of that façade, and the scrawls seem to spring from their minds like cartoon speech that has burst free of its bubbles.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 5 May 2025
• Kim has on the type of hat that a bank robber wears in Sunday morning cartoons, while Kylie looks like the kind of girl a robber like Kim might steal that money for.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 6 May 2025