Sentence examples for cartoon whale from inspiring English sources

Millions of users attempted to log into Twitter only to be greeted by the service's iconic "fail whale"—the image of a cartoon whale being hoisted into the air by a flock of birds, signaling a site outage.

Smiling cartoon whales adorn shop fronts and even manhole covers.

Kids all over the world talk animatedly about cartoon whales, but can't describe a simple flower in front of them.

Kids all over the world talk animatedly about cartoon whales, but can't describe a simple flower in front of them.

At the risk of diminishing its impact, this recalls the Disney cartoon "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met" (one of the episodes in the 1946 film "Make Mine Music"), in which the lead character, Willie the whale, sung by Nelson Eddy (never better), is joyously triphonic, and can sing tenor, baritone and bass simultaneously in the "Rigoletto" quartet.

In its earlier days, Twitter was famed for its flaky reliability, with its "fail whale" cartoon - which was displayed when the site was overloaded - becoming a regular sight for users.

The book is equally rigorous and insane, squashing deep into the squishy curves of the unconscious, where all that childhood cartoon sound and whale-sized dreams of death are housed.

Twitter first felt the heat of fail from its own users in the spring of last year, when service outages on the site began to be accompanied by a cartoon image of a whale.

Trying to look ecologically trendy, officials last month presented a new sales slogan: "Save Them, Eat Them!" Lampooning this curious combination of research and cuisine in a program that kills about 600 whales a year, an Asahi Shimbun cartoon recently showed a sailor on a boat marked "Japanese Whaling" coming into a port with half a dozen dead whales trussed up on the foredeck.

New Bedford was the center of the whaling industry from the late 1700's until 1859 when oil was discovered in Titusville, PA. (A humorous 1861 Vanity Fair cartoon on display depicts tuxedo-clad whales toasting the first oil well).

He's hatching an egg!' " This is his conscious recollection of the genesis of "Horton Hatches the Egg," but his subconscious might demur, since he had done a cartoon for Judge, years before, showing a whale in a tree.