health bar
noun
(video games) an on-screen representation of the health of a player, antagonist, or other character, which indicates how injured or how healed that character is.
health bars
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pluralof health bar.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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From what I’ve seen, they are merely damage sponges with multiple health bars to chew through.
From The Verge ● Feb. 18, 2022
Cibo also sells more than 20 brands of health bars such as Kind and Larabar, as well as apples and bananas.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2018
Too many of Destiny’s original strikes boiled down to tests of endurance against uninteresting monsters with interminably long health bars, but The Taken King does a great job of shaking things up.
From The Verge ● Sep. 28, 2015
But it’s kind of tough to ask a player to constantly make themselves feel weaker in the game by doubling or tripling enemy health bars and damage output.
From Forbes ● Aug. 20, 2014
Romeos and Juliets, who I bet had pancakes for breakfast, and health bars in their back pockets.
From "Sunny" by Jason Reynolds
