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How to use chart in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Chart means a map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon. Example: “I snuck a look at his chart. It doesn't look good.”

Examples of chart by meaning

nounA graph.

  • Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th).2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864

nounA record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.

  • I snuck a look at his chart. It doesn't look good.

nounA ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.

  • They're at the top of the charts again this week.

verbTo draw a chart or map of.

  • chart the seas

verbTo draw or figure out (a route or plan).

  • Let's chart how we're going to get from here to there.
  • We are on a course for disaster without having charted it.
  • The men in "Homo," (and even perhaps Haynes himself) are not looking for acceptance or validation, but a way to chart their own notions of self-determination in a world that makes little sense and offers even less comfort.1991 May 4, Michael Bronski, “One Man's 'Poison'”, in Gay Community News, page 11

verbTo enter (medical information) into a medical record.

  • Did you chart the urine output yet?

verbTo appear on a hit-recording chart.

  • The song has charted for 15 weeks!
  • The band first charted in 1994.

More sentences with chart

  • This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.From the entry compress
  • The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document.From the entry embed
  • Make a blow-up of the chart so we have more room to draw on it.From the entry blow-up
  • The chart starts in the center and branches out from there.From the entry branch out
  • The hospital ignored the DNR order because it wasn't entered on the charts.From the entry DNR
  • This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.From the entry assignment
  • Her latest novel was very steamy, but still managed to top the charts.From the entry steamy
  • That singer's second single didn't chart; I guess his 15 minutes are almost up.From the entry 15 minutes
  • I'd like to draw your attention to this part of the chart.From the entry draw attention
  • The band's first song was a superhit, but they never made it into the charts again.From the entry superhit
  • This pie chart includes the sales of non-food articles (such as health and beauty, pet care, clothing).From the entry non-food
  • The doctor said I needed glasses after I failed to read past the fourth line on the eye chart.From the entry eye chart
  • She read her astrological chart every morning.From the entry astrological
  • Advance sales quickly went off the charts.From the entry off the charts
  • The basedness is off the charts here.From the entry basedness
  • This info should be windowed out in a chart.From the entry window out
  • A two-way chart; a two-way table.From the entry two-way
  • The charts (homeomorphisms) that make up any differentiable structure of a differentiable manifold are required to be such that the transition from one to another is differentiable.From the entry differentiable manifold
  • Cont repeating all 7 rnds of the chart until your Foot reaches its desired length.2026, Summer Lee, “Color-Block Socks”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 75. From the entry cont
  • Using this chart, we can create the negative harmonies of any chord or melody.2024 May 27, “What is a negative harmony in music?”, in skᵒₒve: Piano lessons that work (blog), Learnfield GmbH, archived from the…. From the entry negative harmony
  • A chart from online database FRED shows the downward trend in airfares before the COVID-19 pandemic.2023 May 17, Heather Hennerich, “What Makes a Market an Oligopoly?”, in Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, archived from the original on…. From the entry airfare
  • On Earth, we chart the history of waterways by looking at sediment that is deposited over time.2022 October 27, Adrienne Berard, quoting Benjamin Cardenas, “Traces of ancient ocean discovered on Mars”, in phys.org. From the entry stratigraphy
  • Timers, warning sticker charts, promises and pinkie swears: Nothing trumps the power of an iPad.2019 May 8, Meghan Leahy, “Getting an uncooperative 5-year-old from Point A to Point B”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The…. From the entry pinkie swear
  • We can then chart them over time and it results in that kind of a diagram.2017, Sherman Wilcox, Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages, page 177. From the entry diagram
  • “VIRA, determine our current position and chart the fastest course to the next portal.2017, Marc Baumgartner, Inheritance of Stars: New Worlds, tredition, page 388. From the entry Sol III
  • We would dance every time she went potty and she would put a sticker on the chart.2017 November 10, Lafwa S. Espero, Faith, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry potty dance
  • In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare charts the inevitable cutification of political myth.2016 Summer, Colby Gordon, “Candied Cleopatra: The Cute Aesthetics of Shakespeare's Political Theology”, in Journal for Early Modern…. From the entry cutification
  • Charting modern China's breakneck pace is a staple of Jia Zhangke's cinema.2015 December 23, Benjamin Dodman, “Film review: ‘Mountains May Depart’ probes China’s latest leap forward”, in France 24, archived from…. From the entry Fenyang
  • In total, I count only 31 female-centered pictures at the top of the charts in 30 years.2015 June 8, Bob Mondello, “This Year, Women (And Girls) Rule The Big Screen”, in NPR, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2022. From the entry womencentric
  • A chart of the Ace Spectrum: the different possibilities for asexuals, demisexuals, and allosexuals.2014 November, Krista Rhoades, “Asexual Awareness Week”, in Collide, number 22, page 5. From the entry allosexual

Meaning of chart

  1. noun A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
  2. noun A navigator's map.
  3. noun A tabular presentation of data; a table.

Full definition of chart

Questions about chart in a sentence

How do you use chart in a sentence?
Chart is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I snuck a look at his chart. It doesn't look good.”
What is a short sentence with chart?
“chart the seas”
What does chart mean?
Chart means a map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chart (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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