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speech balloons
noun
Plural of speech balloon
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In a playful touch, huge flat set pieces pop up, looking like speech balloons in cartoons.
It is not history, but right-wing talk radio with speech balloons.
The resemblances to Earth are blunt enough for an eco-savvy kindergartner and pop off the screen like speech balloons.
Sometimes they erupt into full‑blown comics, conveying dialogue in speech balloons that float happily amid the text.
Rochelle Feinstein's three images with added speech balloons could be about a photographic impulse or a sexual one.
New print ads aimed at older consumers also have speech balloons emanating from ecstatic joints, but feature older actors golfing, playing tennis or gardening.
The Dandy, it says, created "a new kind of picture strip that dispensed with text captions underneath the pictures and used speech balloons for dialogue".
One of his early creations required students to fill in blank speech balloons from Calvin and Hobbes comic strips, as a way of teaching dialogue.
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In a speech balloon, the chef complains: "I hate evaporating!
When you've pressed send, the text plonks itself into a speech balloon.
And beyond all this an empty speech balloon bobs at the painting's edge, too small to contain the verbiage.
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