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Meanings of speech balloon in English

Russian
спич-баббл
Portuguese
balão de diálogo
Spanish
bocadillo de cómic
Catalan
globus de diàleg
Wikidata

Graphic convention in comics for representing speech.

        спич-баббл
        Synonyms
        Examples for "speech bubble"
        Examples for "speech bubble"
        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
        The drawings are cute but somewhat crude, with panel borders and dialogue balloons that kind of look like something drawn with a Sharpie.
        Wired
        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 speech balloon in English
        1
        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