How to Use stick figure in a Sentence

stick figure

noun
  • There is a bed with a stick figure, and a larger stick figure.
    — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • But there’s a reason this 7-foot-4 stick figure is one of a kind.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • In the mural, stick figures formed a circle.
    — Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The other boy drew a long shape with a small stick figure and a larger stick figure.
    — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • And the Aztecs, with a dull product, don’t draw stick figures to Snapdragon.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2025
  • At the end, the couple turns the canvas around to reveal two stick figures holding hands with a smaller stick figure.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Outside the box are several other stick figures.
    — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The mold shapes itself into a tall biped that resembles a stick figure or distorted skeleton.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • One is a permanent memento of his daughter's stick figure drawings.
    — Grace Gavilanes, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
  • There was a series of letters at the top of the drawing, as well as another stick figure drawing in the corner of the paper.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Even authors who refrained from killing off their female characters may as well have, for all the complexity their stick figures attained.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Except this time, Cal is a closeted diva scrambling to hide his Grindr alerts and Jack specializes in stick figure cat paintings.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
  • These stick figures remind me of fishermen in an old Japanese woodblock print, their histories and identities dissolved by the low light and the immensity of their stage.
    — Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Garland and Boyle also have devoted time and effort to character psychology, to making the members of the Icarus’ crew into recognizable people and not Hollywood stick figures.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026
  • As a nod to those some of those restrictions—and with some humor mixed in—the league celebrated Canada forward Mitch Marner’s overtime winner against Switzerland earlier in the day in a very different way, posting a crude stick figure animation.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 19 Feb. 2026

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