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Meanings of dialogue balloon in English

Russian
спич-баббл
Portuguese
balão de diálogo
Spanish
bocadillo de cómic
Catalan
globus de diàleg
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Graphic convention in comics for representing speech.

спич-баббл
Synonyms
Examples for "speech balloon"
Examples for "speech balloon"
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There was a smiley face on the screen with a cartoon speech balloon:
The girl who kicked the hornet's nest
2
The smoke drifted from his lips like a ghostly speech balloon.
Anansi Boys
3
One of the "wise men" from the dungeon appeared on the screen, with a speech balloon that said, "Thank you.
Ready Player One
4
She stared at the page, her words in the speech balloons, and smiled fondly.
Discord's apple
5
Alpha Company soldiers pound their keyboards to bark soldierly jargon (text appears as speech balloons over their avatars' heads).
Wired
1
I clicked on the little green box with the white speech bubble.
Speaking in Bones
2
And the way they visualize that is through the speech bubble.
Wired
3
It was an expert blanking, missing only a talk-to-the-hand speech bubble.
The Irish Times
4
Politicians have trapped themselves in their own speech bubble.
The Guardian
5
A speech bubble displays the existence of comments
Nagios: system and network monitoring, 2nd edition
1
As you type to talk, your head swells until it explodes into a cartoon bubble.
Wired
2
Berberian runs the gamut of cartoon bubble texts.
The Irish Times
3
Then a cartoon bubble appeared above its head reading, It looks like you're writing a letter.
Year Zero
4
Another cartoon bubble appeared.
Year Zero
5
And so sometimes action results from those two separate cartoon bubbles intersecting.
The new yorker
1
But the idea was it was supposed to be a word balloon.
Wired
2
Each keystroke displays an upper body, a lower body, or a word balloon.
Wired
3
The caricature of Scorpius had a word balloon coming out of its mouth.
James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
4
What will happen when word balloons and art panels mutate to fit the space defined by multimedia?
Wired
5
He would have word balloons that popped over his head and you would see what he was thinking.
Wired
1
And we think it's important that you're not in a thought bubble.
Wired
2
With shaking hands, she pressed on the little thought bubble icon to open Madeline's texts.
The Lying Game
3
Her frozen smile echoes the thought bubble Will I Win, running like a newsflash below.
The Guardian
4
A cartoon style thought bubble protruding from her mouth reads, Should I have an abortion?
Radio NZ
5
A thought bubble emerges from his head.
The Irish Times
Usage of dialogue balloon in English
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The drawings are cute but somewhat crude, with panel borders and dialogue balloons that kind of look like something drawn with a Sharpie.
Wired