How to Use flowchart in a Sentence

flowchart

noun
  • Follow this flowchart to find the method that's best for you.
    Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2021
  • This is a flowchart where all roads lead to the same answer: Leave it alone.
    Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 15 June 2017
  • The staffing schedule looks like a NASA flowchart for the moon landing.
    Danielle Ofri, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2020
  • If you're stumped on which movie is worth your time, just go with the flow — or at least our flowchart.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2014
  • Below, a flowchart of how that might progress, with each step labeled.
    Philip Bump, Washington Post, 13 June 2017
  • But keeping the lineups straight for the Airplane and two splinter bands took a wall-size flowchart.
    Bill Van Niekerken, SFChronicle.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • For a helpful flowchart of the different versions of the album, click here.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 Jan. 2018
  • See the old flowchart Love Letters made about not calling exes.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Follow along on the flowchart below to determine how the CDC's new guidance applies to you.
    Julius Lasin, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Use this flowchart to find out, and then discover 33 diverse methods for recharging your mind, body and soul.
    Marielle Wakim, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The different networks all attempt to model the data they’ve been fed by tuning a vast, funky flowchart.
    Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Yet since January, a flowchart drawn in green highlighter has hung over the window above his desk at Santa Rita Jail.
    Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 13 May 2018
  • Together, the brands produced a piece of content that features some of the best places to camp in the park, with a healthy inclusion of Nemo’s tents, and even a flowchart that helps readers decide where to go.
    Ryan Wichelns, Outside Online, 22 Aug. 2017
  • This flowchart shows how all of the meeting’s attendees are connected.
    Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 18 July 2017
  • Allow Windows to recognize when users are inking math, a flowchart, or a table.
    Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 8 May 2018
  • At this point, someone somewhere has surely put together an intricate flowchart on how all seven of the brave men about to head north of the Wall know one another.
    Joanna Robinson, HWD, 14 Aug. 2017
  • At this point, someone somewhere has surely put together an intricate flowchart on how all seven of the brave men about to head north of the Wall know one another.
    Joanna Robinson, HWD, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The livestock department has this flowchart that explains exactly how that works.
    Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 24 May 2018
  • At the end of each chapter a flowchart is displayed showing the various narrative branches that the player's decision led to.
    Patrick Shanley, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2018
  • The diagram resembles a corporate flowchart, with lines branching out and intersecting, but all of them flowing out of two names: the Columbine killers.
    Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2018
  • Brian Stegall, who leads a 25-person design team at Square, tells Quartz that the flowchart function and the interactive brainstorming features have been crowd pleasers.
    Anne Quito, Quartz, 27 May 2021
  • That’s why Young has built her flowchart: to search for signals from exoplanets that might be at any stage in their multibillion-year evolution, even if their atmospheres are not like present-day Earth’s.
    WIRED, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The toolkit is a flowchart with contingency plans to reduce the administrative burden on managers, many of whom are novices at planning such events.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Deborah Birx, a public health expert tapped by the White House to help coordinate the administration’s response to the virus, held up a flowchart depicting how the site was supposed to work.
    Louise Matsakis, Wired, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Nour also runs his own it business, Nourayn Media Group, out of an office dominated by a huge marketing flowchart in English.
    Nina Burleigh, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2012
  • Many counties, including in the Bay Area, have set up complicated flowcharts describing when deputies can respond.
    Hamed Aleaziz, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 May 2018
  • It’s certainly not the model every team uses — the majority of clubs that don’t have a head coach as the top personnel person in the organization have a flowchart for football decision that begins with the GM.
    Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Oltmann tried to talk the crowd through a flowchart presentation involving tabulation systems and fake ballots.
    New York Times, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The initial plan for Tuesday’s press conference called for Donald Trump, equipped with a complex set of flowcharts, to explain how his administration will cut regulatory red tape to help streamline the process of building roads.
    Isobel Thompson, vanityfair.com, 16 Aug. 2017
  • The Ohio Department of Health has optional quarantine guidance and a flowchart for schools and local health departments, which most counties have implemented as law during the pandemic.
    The Enquirer, 5 Oct. 2021

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