How to Use axel in a Sentence

axel

noun

• The edge jumps are the loop, the salchow and the axel, while the toe jumps are the toe loop, the flip and the lutz.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2022
• Which means, of course, trying the triple axel in both the short program and the free skate.
  — Bloomberg.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• The triple axel is a very difficult jump for skaters to make.
  — Cheryl Wray, AL.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• Hanyu has said his goal for these Winter Games is to be the first to perform a quad axel.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
• Bell has practiced a 3½-rotation triple axel but hasn’t tried quads.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• That is all that has been secured so far, and there’s no telling what the North will do once the last triple axel has been twirled.
  — Ryu Spaeth, New Republic, 7 Feb. 2018
• Brown, ninth at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, did no quads Thursday and had a scratchy landing on his triple axel.
  — Helene Elliott, latimes.com, 5 Jan. 2018
• Would Yuzuru Hanyu try to regain his—and maybe land a quadruple axel in the process?
  — Joyce Rubin, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2022
• Nagasu, who stuck her triple axel in the team event, said.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2018
• When the triple axel failed her Wednesday her medal hopes vanished.
  — Helene Elliott, latimes.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• Liu, 14, achieved the feat despite falling on a triple axel to open her debut.
  — Alaa Abdeldaiem, SI.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• Patrick Chan, a three-time world champion from Canada, won the team free skate but fell on a triple axel.
  — JerÉ Longman, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
• Chan did not achieve his goal on Friday, falling on a quadruple toe and triple axel.
  — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
• At lower right, skates of all sizes are ready for some spins and axels on the ice at the T-Mobile Winter Park rental station.
  — SFChronicle.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• On Saturday evening, the final group of six men came out for their warm-ups and hurled quads and triple axels with abandon.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Jan. 2018
• In 2018, Nagasu’s triple axel was the coveted skill at the Olympics.
  — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
• Nagasu, fourth in Vancouver, fell on her triple axel and earned a score of 66.93 for ninth place.
  — USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2018
• The night prior, Valieva became the fourth woman to land a triple axel at the Winter Games.
  — PEOPLE.com, 6 Feb. 2022
• Hanyu went for a quad axel in his free skate, which has never been landed in competition, but fell to the ice.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 9 Feb. 2022
• That applied force is then carried down the handle to the axel, which subsequently turns the wheels.
  — Will Briskin, Popular Mechanics, 22 May 2022
• There was a bronze in ice dancing for the U.S., and a bronze in the team event, highlighted by a triple axel from Mirai Nagasu, but that was about it.
  — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• The 24-year-old figure skater became the first American woman to land a triple axel in the Olympics in February.
  — Hannah Smothers, Cosmopolitan, 8 Mar. 2018
• After a Sutter County fire truck arrived, crews threw a winch line down to the officer who wrapped it around the axel.
  — David Caraccio, sacbee.com, 26 May 2017
• Sikharulidze had been over-rotated and stumbled out of a double axel.
  — Lanford Beard, PEOPLE.com, 17 Feb. 2022
• Talty first learned to skate at age 2 and remembers landing her first axel at age 8.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2021
• Nagasu became the first American woman to land a triple axel in the Olympics.
  — Heather Tucker, USA TODAY Sports, 12 Feb. 2018
• Beyond the jumps and triple axels, a huge amount of athletic performance comes down to mental game.
  — Aliza Abarbanel, Bon Appetit, 15 Feb. 2018
• Neither Bell nor Chen is able to land a quadruple jump or a triple axel, moves that have become almost necessary to win on the world stage.
  — New York Times, 8 Jan. 2022
• West, who has legally changed his name to Ye, compared wearing the shirt to Tonya Harding performing a triple axel.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 8 Oct. 2022
• In an alternate world, the train crew on the Norfolk Southern train would have noticed problems on one of the cars’ axels earlier, and inspected it.
  — Reid Frazier, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024