Example sentences for: comic-book

How can you use “comic-book” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Fraser has a long, rangy body and a gee-whiz openness that makes him perfect for a comic-book hero, and the lovely Weisz--whose eyes are so far apart that they're almost in different time zones--brings a screwball aplomb to the dizzy distaff Egyptologist.

  • Congress held hearings on the delinquency epidemic, calling comic-book artists to testify about whether their drawings inspired children to violence.

  • "By 1941 they had come to seem too young" (1941 was also the year when Archie, the definitive comic-book teen-ager, was introduced to the world by John L. Goldwater, who died earlier this year, and Bob Montana).

  • Much comic-book onomatopoeia comes from the fights of good guys versus bad guys, specifically the sound of fists against bodies.

  • The images have some of the power of Art Spiegelman's comic-book version of the Holocaust, Maus , and for some of the same reasons.


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