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
  • The event will have free ice cream, coloring books and crayons available.
    — Courant Community, 5 Sep. 2017
  • This book is also an adult coloring book and one of my favorites.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2021
  • One wall was adorned with pictures that appeared to come from coloring books.
    — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, azcentral, 28 June 2018
  • Adult coloring books are available in-stores and in mobile app stores.
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 23 May 2019
  • There's even a kid-friendly area with a play space, chalkboard wall, and coloring books.
    — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 12 July 2019
  • If not, get some canvasses (or coloring books), some bevvies, and throw your own.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Spend many a day coloring in scenes from his life with this charming adult coloring book.
    — Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Draw concepts for your own adult coloring book before that trend bottom outs.
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 28 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sleep Token has unveiled a brand new coloring book.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 7 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Think of it like the odd pleasure of power washing or neatly filling out an adult coloring book.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
  • But the Google Pixel 6a might be the first product to leak via a coloring book.
    — Nathaniel Mott, PCMAG, 29 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • My grandma even spotted a stress-relief adult coloring book for after-dinner fun and found fun toys for the kids, too.
    — Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 2 Dec. 2024
  • There will be puzzles to work on, adult coloring books, Scrabble games and other games available.
    — courant.com, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The children had already gotten a safety talk from Jones, complete with coloring books and lots of tips.
    — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The family responded with the room number by writing on the girl’s coloring book.
    — Silvia Foster-Frau, ExpressNews.com, 1 July 2020
  • Secret Garden—a coloring book for adults—is Basford's first book and has sold more than one million copies.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 30 Nov. 2016
  • Jaq Jaq Bird’s chalk coloring book offers reusable pages that kids can fill, wipe and refill as the mood strikes.
    — Korin Miller, wsj.com, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The Pixel 6a was previously leaked through, of all things, a coloring book.
    — Sascha Segan, PCMAG, 19 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • 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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