She was talking even before she reached him, the breath pluming out of her mouth in shapes like cartoon balloons with no words written inside them.

Explanations of math concepts are often just a few words in a cartoon balloon so that students can read it easily.

The words of the poems were placed in cartoon balloons and panels in true comic book format.

He lost interest in his spiel and returned to the cartoon balloons.

But because its characters pontificate in generalities and aphorisms, they're little more than stick figures with cartoon balloons pasted over their heads.

She describes one patient, for instance, as having "a laugh like you'd find in a cartoon balloon."

The dialogue appearing inside his cartoon balloons is pitch-perfect and succinct.

Above them all float two cartoon balloons full of numbers.

"You proved yourself," the older cop says in a cartoon balloon.