How to Use bar graph in a Sentence
bar graph
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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
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A week before George Floyd was killed, Jane Nguyen created a bar graph.
—NBC News, 14 June 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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