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How to use toolbar in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Toolbar means a row of buttons, usually marked with icons, used to activate the functions of an application or operating system. Example: “The floating toolbar will snap to the edge of the screen when dragged towards it.”

Examples of toolbar by meaning

nounA row of buttons, usually marked with icons, used to activate the functions of an application or operating system.

  • Some UIs tend to improve this by displaying toolbars only when they are related to any object manipulated (e.g., an image, a rectangle) and undisplaying them afterwards.2005, Maria Francesca Costabile, Fabio Paternò, Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2005, page 199
  • Using the controls on the toolbar, you can preview and perform basic manipulation of each image available for importing.2009, William R. Stanek, Windows 7: The Definitive Guide, The Essential Resource for Professionals and Power Users, page 354

More sentences with toolbar

  • The floating toolbar will snap to the edge of the screen when dragged towards it.From the entry snap
  • You can drag the floating toolbars to any position on the screen.From the entry floating
  • Click the Colours button on the toolbar to show a dropdown menu of available colours.From the entry dropdown
  • How do I unhide the editing toolbar? I need to use those commands again.From the entry unhide
  • Swipe left to hide the toolbar.From the entry swipe
  • Goodbye to Word’s prim rulers, its officious yardsticks, its self-serious formatting toolbar with cryptic abbreviations (ComicSansMS?) and trinkety icons.2008 January 6, Virginia Heffernan, “An Interface of One’s Own”, in New York Times. From the entry trinkety
  • You can create collections of files, applications and controls — equivalent to IE4 toolbars or Windows program groups — called deskbands, which you can display on the taskbar.1997, Windows Magazine, volume 8, numbers 7-9, page 498. From the entry deskband
  • The browser buttons, shown in Figure 7-1, are simply links that you can place on the same toolbar that holds your most frequently used bookmarks (known as "favorites" in Microspeak).2004, Sarah Milstein, Rael Dornfest, Google: the missing manual, page 174. From the entry Microspeak

Meaning of toolbar

  1. noun A row of buttons, usually marked with icons, used to activate the functions of an application or operating system.

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Questions about toolbar in a sentence

How do you use toolbar in a sentence?
Toolbar is used as a noun. For example: “The floating toolbar will snap to the edge of the screen when dragged towards it.”
What is a short sentence with toolbar?
“Swipe left to hide the toolbar.”
What does toolbar mean?
Toolbar means a row of buttons, usually marked with icons, used to activate the functions of an application or operating system.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toolbar (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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