How to Use bar graph in a Sentence

bar graph

noun

• This bar graph shows how the seasons in Denver, Colorado — not far from where the Marshall Fire ignited — have grown warmer over the years.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2021
• My hours on YouTube loomed large on a bar graph - tsk-tsking me like a nosy, judgmental friend.
  — William Wan, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
• A week before George Floyd was killed, Jane Nguyen created a bar graph.
  — NBC News, 14 June 2020
• This time, subjects who didn't see a bar graph saw the numbers repeated in the text instead.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2014
• The engine speed appears as a bar graph, torque and power can be displayed, and the car can also track g-forces and lap times.
  — Juergen Zoellter, Car and Driver, 19 July 2021
• This was not a full circle moment but the right side of a steep bar graph, arrow pointing directly up.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 15 Dec. 2020
• My total sleep time was eight hours and fifteen minutes, according to the app, but a bar graph of my sleep stages showed data for just five of those hours.
  — Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2018
• At one point, third graders were set to learn graphing with the school’s daily energy tally, but the plan was scrapped because the dashboard gives that data in bar graphs.
  — Chris Berdik, WIRED, 6 June 2018
• Tapping the step counter shows a bar graph breaking down your movement by hour, and tapping the most recent workout stat brings you to a list of all your workouts in date order.
  — Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 16 Dec. 2018
• The bar graph on his phone app edged higher to show the new solar system generating enough power to run the huge building beneath his feet.
  — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• Some airport pages show a bar graph displaying busy cycles—but with no specific times listed, the graph is useless.
  — Barbara Peterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2018
• Hoping to generate an explanation, the Grosecloses had included in their email a bar graph of Jack’s sleep cycle and a photo of him.
  — New York Times, 6 July 2022
• Christ said people should look at the bar graph on the data dashboard for the best understanding of when deaths occurred, rather than relying on the daily reported number.
  — Rachel Leingang, azcentral, 8 May 2020
• For example, Lauren Gohara makes a color-field painting out of three bar graphs that visualize the division of wealth in the United States.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
• At a recent news briefing, President Trump pointed to a bar graph that showed that Belgium, which has about 11.5 million people, has the highest number of coronavirus deaths per capita.
  — Author: William Booth, Karla Adam, Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2020
• The bar graph below shows the shifting grades for schools where more than 60% of students’ families are receiving some form of federal assistance, the measure of poverty now used in Alabama’s schools.
  — al, 29 Oct. 2019
• Last, the pandemic data is put in context to the area’s demographics, including a bar graph showing the health insurance status of residents by age group.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2020
• After undergoing a rigorous and draining one-hour session -- just a third of the time Leverkusen's players spend training and the equivalent of their warmup -- the data from the GPS tracker is downloaded and portrayed in bar graphs.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 7 Sep. 2017
• In fact, the bar graph of these statistics mirrors the graph on apprehensions (see above) — generally, when apprehensions were higher, so, too, were removals and returns.
  — Lori Robertson, USA TODAY, 30 June 2018
• The use of scientific-looking bar graphs to represent translation quality is simply an abuse of the external trappings of science.
  — Douglas Hofstadter, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2018
• One of these shows your speed, a graphical representation of the battery's state of charge, a range estimate, and a bar graph that shows energy being deployed or regenerated.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2020
• To provide context, an infographic can offer visualization using a bar graph or pie chart, the size of the crypto market cap versus precious metals, equities and other sectors.
  — Yec, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• My favorite discovery was a suite of colorful bar graphs charting women’s labor productivity, souped up with photocollages of climbing high-rises and satisfied workers: a rather more inventive kind of data journalism.
  — Holland Cotter, Roberta Smith and Jason Farago, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2017

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