How to Use comic strip in a Sentence

comic strip

noun
  • First, draw an empty comic strip grid that is four squares wide and two squares tall.
    — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 26 Oct. 2019
  • The comic strip has been published weekly for the past decade.
    — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 17 Apr. 2021
  • The strip is the first by a new artist who has taken over the iconic comic strip.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 17 Oct. 2020
  • His father was a carpenter in a steel mill with a love of comic strips.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 7 July 2018
  • One is trained to read a comic strip from left to right, top to bottom, one panel at a time.
    — The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Her engaging cookbook plays out recipes in the style of a comic strip.
    — Kate Krader, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Is the end of a comic strip after 50 years a big deal anymore?
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Was your mom’s love of the comic strip the impetus for this series?
    — New York Times, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The newspapers that have cut the comic strip have been clear with readers.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Even if memes and comic strips and greeting cards tell us otherwise.
    — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
  • He was featured in tiny comic strips wrapped around pieces of Bazooka bubble gum.
    — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Santa will get a chuckle out of the comic strip scene printed on this cookie tray.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2021
  • This holiday version of the beloved Peanuts comic strip is the one for you.
    — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The Monday strip is the first by a new artist who has taken over the iconic comic strip.
    — Jeff Strickler, Star Tribune, 11 Oct. 2020
  • The first Peanuts comic strip was published on this day in 1950.
    — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The first Peanuts comic strip was published 75 years ago today.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Later, read the captions aloud together like a comic strip.
    — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 22 June 2026
  • Later, read the captions aloud together like a comic strip.
    — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Snoopy also had six other siblings, and a total of five of his siblings showed up in the comic strip.
    — Micaela English, Town & Country, 26 Oct. 2015
  • Match each dog in the left-paw column with its comic strip home in the U-T in the right-paw column.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
  • At first glance, the small colored drawing by Kushawn Miles El reads like a comic strip.
    — CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Netflix also gave a shoutout to a famous Argentine comic strip and a big sci-fi name.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
  • For the people who don't know, Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip from my childhood that is brilliant.
    — Megan Ditrolio, Marie Claire, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The scroll is designed to be held in the hands and unrolled sequentially like a comic strip, but moving from right to left.
    — Washington Post, 27 July 2022
  • There’s little narrative through-line; the show was far more akin to a comic strip than a narrative sitcom.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Adams rose to fame as the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, which first launched in 1989.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Katie was an aspiring artist known at Dover High School for drawing comic strips.
    — Fox News, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Katie was an aspiring artist known at Dover High School for drawing comic strips.
    — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2018
  • According to the film, the comic strip was outselling Superman at one point.
    — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2017
  • One of the few bright spots is a return to the family's love of horror and gore, harkening back to the tone of the original comic strip.
    — Lee Escobedo, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2022

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