How to Use clip art in a Sentence

clip art

noun
  • Other signs in the shape of red hearts were posted nearby along with clip art images of doctors and nurses.
    Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2020
  • The swastika was a stock printer’s clip art, like flowers or geometric shapes.
    Anne Quito, Quartz, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Others had more of a class-project vibe, with clip art and embarrassing duckface selfies.
    Jennifer Miller, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
  • To document the agreement, Dowling typed up the terms in PowerPoint on a clip art parchment backdrop.
    Sophia Chen, Wired, 9 Mar. 2020
  • The strip's signature six panels are the same every time, consisting of simple dinosaur clip art that North found on a CD; only the text changes.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Perhaps Sylvester and Coley had to fill so much time because Parker and Henson had to wait for their lists to spit out of their color inkjet printers, and someone put too much clip art on the files?
    Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2021
  • Instead, the book — which is filled with photographs of the author, clip art and too-clever chapter titles — reads more like a rock bio than a memoir or a work of serious journalism.
    Marya Hornbacher, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Opening the app provides a somewhat cluttered UI that shows each device in a gallery with clip art-like images for visual identification of your items.
    Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Public domain images are photos or clip art that is available for personal and commercial use free of charge.
    Lisa Kim, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Someone apparently even spent more than a million dollars for clip art of a rock.
    Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The first slide of the secure-in-place portion of the training includes the clip art imagery.
    Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2023

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