How to Use bar chart in a Sentence

bar chart

noun
  • The occasion of Lunar Year inspired a bar chart of East Asian roots.
    Zachary M. Seward, Quartz, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Below that, there will be a bar chart broken down by day of the week to show you the individual counts for each day.
    Katherine Bindley, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2018
  • This bar chart shows the estimates of yearly home sales if the frequency of sales in October were to hold all year, going back to 2000.
    Catherine Allen, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
  • This generates cash from operations of about 9.7 billion (in line with Exxon’s fuzzy bar chart on slide 51).
    Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2019
  • Through the sliding glass door of the modest ranch house, the city unfurled to the horizon, interrupted only by the Hollywood Hills and the abrupt metallic bar chart of downtown.
    New York Times, 12 Dec. 2021
  • But for now, in crucial London districts, the race has become a battle of bar charts, as both Labour and the Liberal Democrats try to prove they are best positioned to win three-way fights for seats.
    Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2019
  • Two bar charts showing the number of school shootings involving males and the number involving females, per year, since 2013.
    Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Nearly every statistician would recommend a bar chart over a pie chart.
    Dan Kopf, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2020
  • But accompanying bar charts showed the numbers were worse for black and younger HIV-positive people.
    San Antonio Express-News, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The political issues bar chart shows the percentage support for four issues by five age categories.
    New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • This might be used for two different crops of the same photograph (a wide crop for large and a close crop for small) or for two different orientations of a bar chart (horizontal/large and vertical/small).
    Rob Weychert, ProPublica, 4 Feb. 2022
  • There are bar charts showing the number of tests, negative and positive, each day, and for those wanting a closer look at the numbers, there are totals for each of the county’s 73 municipalities.
    Mark Bowden, The Atlantic, 27 May 2020
  • The above bar chart compares the accuracy rates of the two models in predicting snow days, demonstrating similar rates of up to 100% possible accuracy.
    Detroit Free Press, 13 Jan. 2024
  • This bar chart shows antiviral prescription rates, categorized by Covid-19 vaccination history.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2023

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