How to Use axis in a Sentence

axis

1 of 2 noun

• Of that axis business, about half is from breeding and half from hunting.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Mar. 2021
• This latest one is concerned with something called off-axis light.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
• In early 2002, Bush put the country on the axis of evil.
  — Lawrence Korb, National Review, 21 Mar. 2021
• Maybe sitting at a sidewalk cafe drinking wine while the world spins on a troubled axis smacks of denial, even privilege.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Mar. 2021
• The people who do water jet cutting, this is cut on a five-axis water jet machine by Mennonites.
  — CBS News, 20 Mar. 2021
• Which is why the slowly but surely burgeoning travel universe is shifting ever so slightly on its axis these days.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2021
• Its diagonal form is partly inspired by the architecture of a shotgun house turned on its axis.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• The different kinds of gratings are aimed at the same result, that is ensuring off-axis angular light can be maximized to improve the result.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
• The vertical axis shows VO2 max, a measure of aerobic fitness.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 23 Mar. 2021
• The teenager’s next big trick is a backside triple cork 1440 — launching backward and performing four complete rotations while doing three off-axis flips.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2021
• Her chin tilt is the very axis on which the show spins.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• The axis of the match shifted back and forth in the early moments.
  — oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2023
• This is part of an axis of evil of Iran and Hezbollah and Hamas.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2023
• This difference is caused by the tilt of the Earth's axis.
  — WIRED, 4 Sep. 2022
• In this graph, the right-hand axis is my heart rate instead of speed.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 6 Jan. 2022
• But now look at the piece near the axis of rotation (the yellow line).
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024
• It’s called the axis, and this rotation is what gives us day and night.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
• And there are others who deserve pride of place in the axis as well.
  — Danielle Pletka, National Review, 12 Feb. 2022
• The other axis measures how fun the song is to sing — from fun to super fun.
  — Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• The moon rotates on its axis once during each trip around the Earth.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 16 June 2021
• Twice a year, the angle of the Earth's axis sits so neither pole tilts toward the sun or away from it.
  — Kolbe Nelson, CBS News, 20 June 2023
• Still, Matt’s faith seems to have become the central axis of his life.
  — Kevin T. Dugan, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2021
• Unlike climate change, seasons are caused by the rotation of the Earth around the sun and the tilt of the Earth's axis.
  — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
• But time functions on more than one axis in Many Saints.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2021
• The Brit is gonna take a break from screen time, and the world continues to spin upon its mighty axis.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 Aug. 2022
• This has to do with strong geomagnetic storms and the tilt of the Earth’s axis.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2023
• Hatchets and axes have heads that are fitted from the top, with wedges driven in to keep them in place.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 14 June 2023
• The dining room faces north, roughly, so the table is on a north-south axis.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Sep. 2022
• Breakers can modulate the speed of the spin by bringing their arms and legs closer in or farther away from the rotational axis.
  — Aliza Rudavsky, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2024
• Engineers also wanted to measure the upper stage's spin rate and spin axis.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2024

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Axis

2 of 2 adjective

• The North African war was being waged mostly along coastal areas, where Axis airfields and bases were strung out.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• His bombs destroyed Axis railroad cars and a large gasoline truck outside a depot in Trento.
  — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• And and it was stood up to monitor Axis powers and their propaganda through shortwave radio.
  — CBS News, 8 Mar. 2023
• One such ship is among a large group traveling from Iceland to Russian port city Murmansk, under heavy threat of Axis attack en route.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
• The same handle ergonomics and Axis locking mechanism are replicated across knives.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2024
• Grandfather didn’t tell stories about his Holocaust experience as a young boy, or about his time fighting against his homeland and other Axis powers.
  — Megan Greenwell, WIRED, 27 June 2023
• The Axis occupation of Greece ended with Germany’s withdrawal from the country in October 1944.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
• The North African war was being waged mostly along coastal areas, where Axis airfields and bases were strung out.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• His bombs destroyed Axis railroad cars and a large gasoline truck outside a depot in Trento.
  — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• And and it was stood up to monitor Axis powers and their propaganda through shortwave radio.
  — CBS News, 8 Mar. 2023
• One such ship is among a large group traveling from Iceland to Russian port city Murmansk, under heavy threat of Axis attack en route.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
• The same handle ergonomics and Axis locking mechanism are replicated across knives.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2024
• Grandfather didn’t tell stories about his Holocaust experience as a young boy, or about his time fighting against his homeland and other Axis powers.
  — Megan Greenwell, WIRED, 27 June 2023
• The Axis occupation of Greece ended with Germany’s withdrawal from the country in October 1944.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024