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
• The pair first appeared in 1949 as a part of the Fast and Furry-ous cartoon short.
  — Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 15 Jan. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Park spent a good deal of time watching the Disney Channel, cartoons, and movies like Mean Girls.
  — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2024
• My eyes bugged out of my head like a cartoon character.
  — R. Eric Thomas, The Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2024
• He was first published around the age of 12, a cartoon for The Open Road for Boys, a magazine about outdoor life.
  — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2022
• The film takes satirical look at Chip’s and Dale’s lives after the end of their 1989 cartoon series.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 21 May 2022
• 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
• To clear space, they’ve been moved into the pediatric room, which is covered in a mural of cartoon forest animals.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 1 Mar 2025