bar chart
noun
: bar graph
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The post features a bar chart that appears to use NOAA data showing monthly temperatures between January 2015 and January 2022. 
Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 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 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 The bar chart shows that every race and ethnicity had a lower birth rate in 2020 than in 2019. Emily Barone, Time, 5 May 2021 The bar chart of seaborne imports to the U.S. by industry shows data from 2021 and 2020. Dylan Moriarty, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2021 The bar chart shows the average returns for the 1-, 3-, and 5-year periods following the 10%, 20%, and 30% thresholds. Kristin Mckenna, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021 The White House seized on a bar chart the C.D.C. distributed that week to other agencies, which showed that 60 percent of coronavirus deaths were people over the age of 75. Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020 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 See More
Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 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 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 The bar chart shows that every race and ethnicity had a lower birth rate in 2020 than in 2019. Emily Barone, Time, 5 May 2021 The bar chart of seaborne imports to the U.S. by industry shows data from 2021 and 2020. Dylan Moriarty, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2021 The bar chart shows the average returns for the 1-, 3-, and 5-year periods following the 10%, 20%, and 30% thresholds. Kristin Mckenna, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021 The White House seized on a bar chart the C.D.C. distributed that week to other agencies, which showed that 60 percent of coronavirus deaths were people over the age of 75. Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020 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 See More Word History
First Known Use
1904, in the meaning defined above