How to Use axiom in a Sentence

axiom

noun

• There is a lot of axiomatics, which seems to be closer to the Greeks, but aren’t the axioms largely chosen at will?
  — Simone Weil, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• How, without validating George Orwell’s axiom that the quickest way to end a war is to lose it?
  — George F. Will, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
• The old axiom is that 90% of a tree’s roots are in the top foot of soil.
  — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 June 2024
• So most of us work with the same 10 axioms, a system called ZFC.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
• Here, the axioms are the rules of chess that govern legal moves.
  — Sheon Han, Quanta Magazine, 3 May 2023
• With the end of the Cold War, Marshall’s axiom came roaring back in full force.
  — Andrew J. Bacevich, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
• As the old axiom goes, Pakistan isn’t a state with an army but an army with a state.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• And then there are the axioms that undergird the product.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
• Know that whole axiom about not needing to reinvent the wheel?
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 21 Oct. 2021
• A legal axiom states justice and the law are not always the same.
  — Mario Nicolais, The Denver Post, 18 May 2017
• There’s an old axiom in football that games are won and lost on turnovers and big plays.
  — Mike Frainie, baltimoresun.com, 20 Nov. 2021
• That’s the axiom that new arrivals have been hearing for decades.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2021
• That axiom has not been true for some time – at least since Vietnam.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 19 July 2018
• An axiom is that the heavier the rifle, the more accurate the rifle.
  — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2020
• While the lightning rift has turned into a cube now, the axiom remains true.
  — Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, 25 Aug. 2018
• Utah followed the axiom that the best defense against a high-powered offense is to just keep the ball away.
  — Matthew Coles, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
• The data reinforce the axiom that there's no such thing as bad PR.
  — Randall Roberts, chicagotribune.com, 14 July 2019
• The data reinforce the axiom that there’s no such thing as bad PR.
  — Randall Roberts, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• The axiom says yes, but only one such line could exist.
  — Julie Rehmeyer, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2014
• A common axiom among coaches is that much more can be learned from a loss than from a win.
  — Andrew Turner, Daily Pilot, 9 May 2017
• Less is More or, to observe the axiom still further, Be concise.
  — Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• Entering that body of thought requires the axiom to be true.
  — Andy Gole, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• Nowhere is the schoolroom axiom more true than in the 2023 Pegasus World Cup: The bottom half of the class makes the top half of the class possible.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
• The old axiom about every $10 spike in the price of oil leading to a pullback in economic growth may no longer be the case.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 3 Mar. 2022
• By now, this logic has acquired the status of an axiom.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 1 Dec. 2023
• Buy Photo The axiom that when March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb doesn’t have much support in the data.
  — Anthony R. Wood, Philly.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• Abide by that axiom and everything else is on the table.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2021
• If the axiom is not correct, then all deductions are for naught.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2012
• So people have already put in the work to get from the axioms to a reasonably high level.
  — Christoph Drösser, Scientific American, 8 June 2024
• The old baseball axiom is that a team in first place on July 4 will win the pennant, and on July 3 the Giants were tied for first.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2020

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024