1.   Have a conversation with someone outside, and your breath hangs in the air, frozen, unmoving, like a thought balloon in a cartoon strip.

2.   King also uses amusing, creaky flourishes such as rapid zooms and inset thought balloons.

3.   Like the shyest of humans, Snoopy never spoke, but he had a bold, colorful interior life that we could telepathically share by means of thought balloons.

4.   The air seemed full of thought balloons.

5.   Thought balloons float above the heads of these little people.

6.   Unfortunately, my over-the-head backswing knocks away the thought balloon, and pure woodsman instinct takes over.