How to Use bar chart in a Sentence

bar chart

noun
  • 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
  • Nearly every statistician would recommend a bar chart over a pie chart.
    — Dan Kopf, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2020
  • This bar chart shows the number of posts on topics that Elon Musk writes about on his X account.
    — David Ingram, NBC news, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The occasion of Lunar Year inspired a bar chart of East Asian roots.
    — Zachary M. Seward, Quartz, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Several of the competing systems had trouble running this test, so the results are spotty in that bar chart.
    — Matthew Buzzi, PCMAG, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Two bar charts showing monthly new hiring from January to July.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 1 Aug. 2025
  • The political issues bar chart shows the percentage support for four issues by five age categories.
    — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • But accompanying bar charts showed the numbers were worse for black and younger HIV-positive people.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 24 Oct. 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
  • Peter Walker, head of insights at Carta, extrapolated the blue and red findings into a bar chart.
    — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
  • There is a new counter-trend ‘buy’ signal on the monthly bar chart, which increases the likelihood that a test of support will hold and give way to a relief rally lasting several months.
    — Katie Stockton, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2024
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Zooming in on the weekly bar chart, BA shows downside momentum per the declining 10- and 40-week moving averages.
    — Katie Stockton, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Stacked bar chart shows the rise of fraudulent applications using the identities of players on NBA and NFL draft lists.
    — Kevin Collier, NBC news, 29 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • The conflicting indications from the daily and monthly bar charts of AMZN suggest that a bigger relief rally should be viewed as counter-trend and likely short-lived.
    — Katie Stockton, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2025
  • In March, Soos showed the City Council a bar chart that depicted how housing production cratered after the financial crisis in 2008.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 8 May 2026
  • This bar chart shows antiviral prescription rates, categorized by Covid-19 vaccination history.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Iran’s aerial Gulf attacks, by day This bar chart shows the daily count of Iranian aerial strikes launched at Persian Gulf countries since the start of the 2026 Iran war.
    — Jiachuan Wu, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026
  • This bar chart shows the number of hours that Category 5 storms in the North Atlantic took to go from Category 1 to Category 5, of storms in the past 50 years.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 18 Aug. 2025
  • This bar chart shows the number of hours that Category 5 storms in the North Atlantic took to go from Category 1 to Category 5, of storms in the past 50 years.
    — Joe Murphy, NBC news, 21 Aug. 2025

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