How to Use pie chart in a Sentence

pie chart

noun
  • Try a sampler pizza that’s like a pie chart of Fralo all-stars.
    Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Think about your budget like a pie chart, and try out this metric to keep on track.
    Lorenzo Escobal, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Imagine the framework as a pie chart cut into six slices.
    Aaron Burciaga, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • But how will the pie chart of culpability among those three leaders be cut?
    Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Our lives are not a pie chart in which adding to one piece necessarily means taking away from the other.
    Naz Beheshti, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Over those 10 years, the total of the pie chart increased, but the percentage never really changed.
    Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 14 June 2019
  • If my life were a pie chart, there would be a slice of about one-eighth that would represent the part of my life that was percolating along fairly well.
    Liza Donnelly, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The data type for a pie chart, for example, would be a list of pairs of elements, with the first being a word or phrase and the second a percentage.
    Lee Phillips, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2020
  • BofA has a pie chart to visualize that: Don't bank on that ratio lasting for long.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2021
  • And the composition of that pie chart is constantly changing.
    Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The crypto could crater once again, and miners lured by the bonanza could flood the market, lowering the piece of the industry pie chart that Stronghold would garner.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Fill in a pie chart allotting a percentage to each dimension.
    Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 6 June 2021
  • The app would show a pie chart divided into four slices: cash, crypto, rewards, and game points for systems like Microsoft’s Xbox.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2020
  • One of the biggest slices of Lollapalooza’s demographic pie chart is high schoolers.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2022
  • Data visualization as a concept, of course, is hardly new (ask anyone who used crayons to color in a pie chart in grade school).
    Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The invention of the pie chart is credited to Playfair, but again Minard took an existing idea and vastly improved it.
    Betsy Mason, National Geographic, 16 Mar. 2017
  • Republicans created a pie chart that depicts the $160 billion in virus aid as a mere 8% of overall spending.
    Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Nearly every statistician would recommend a bar chart over a pie chart.
    Dan Kopf, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2020
  • The back cover of the book showed a pie chart of DiDi’s priorities in life, divided into percentages.
    Terence McArdle, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The pie chart below was developed by the Legislative Services Agency.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The following pie charts are from Statcast, and detail Pivetta’s pitch usage since entering the majors.
    Michael Beller, SI.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Ramos helps conceptualize her own self-care as an imaginary pie chart in her head, with slices for spending time on work, family, friends, and herself.
    Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 14 Jan. 2019
  • But pie charts persist because people like circles more than rectangles.
    Dan Kopf, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2020
  • This means that the majority of our robocall pie chart is dominated by scammers and disreputable sales tactics.
    Chris Nicoli, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • This pie chart illustrates the proportion of breast cancer cases that run in families, compared with sporadic cases.
    Ashleen Knutsen, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2019
  • The conundrum is perfectly illustrated with a pie chart.
    jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Critics branded us McPaper, deriding our pie charts and bite-sized stories as junk-food journalism.
    Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The full report is only available to Midia subscribers, but Mulligan’s summary, and an accompanying pie chart showing the market share of the different services, can be found here.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Nielsen's pie chart showcases the difference between active and passive viewership, in my humble opinion.
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 17 June 2021
  • When the Miami Dolphins hired Joe Philbin as coach, they were convinced by a catchy power-point display of pie charts and delegated responsibility in his interview.
    Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Nov. 2019

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