How to Use pie chart in a Sentence

pie chart

noun
  • Think about your budget like a pie chart, and try out this metric to keep on track.
    — Lorenzo Escobal, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Track’s slice in the pie chart of her life is ever-expanding.
    — Shane Hoffmann, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Try a sampler pizza that’s like a pie chart of Fralo all-stars.
    — Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 27 Dec. 2020
  • But how will the pie chart of culpability among those three leaders be cut?
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Will Webb, even within the same general schematics, want to shake up the pie chart?
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Which were easier to understand, pie charts or sliding graphs?
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Nearly every statistician would recommend a bar chart over a pie chart.
    — Dan Kopf, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Fill in a pie chart allotting a percentage to each dimension.
    — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 6 June 2021
  • But pie charts persist because people like circles more than rectangles.
    — Dan Kopf, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2020
  • And the composition of that pie chart is constantly changing.
    — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 5 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Both use various visual tools, such as pie charts and line graphs, to make this information easier to digest.
    — Dianna Gunn, PC Magazine, 1 July 2026
  • Over those 10 years, the total of the pie chart increased, but the percentage never really changed.
    — Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 14 June 2019
  • 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 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
  • But the pie chart in the post does not reflect the typical MISO fuel mix in recent years.
    — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Ask for visual summaries including pie charts, bar graphs, and comparison tables to make even the most complex of data clear.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Or a pie chart buried halfway through a PowerPoint presentation?
    — Sherzod Odilov, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • These analytics are presented as basic numbers and visualizations, such as bar graphs and pie charts.
    — Dianna Gunn, PC Magazine, 1 July 2026
  • For example, rather than detailing all 50 variables in a risk model, highlight the top three to five drivers using a simple pie chart or bar graph.
    — Himanshu Sinha, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Functionally, that means meeting for hours at a time to pore over bar graphs and pie charts and debate the minutiae of immunization efficacy.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The following pie charts are from Statcast, and detail Pivetta’s pitch usage since entering the majors.
    — Michael Beller, SI.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Critics branded us McPaper, deriding our pie charts and bite-sized stories as junk-food journalism.
    — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 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

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