How to Use axis in a Sentence

axis

noun

• Those are just people with axes to grind against us.
  — Marcos Breton, Sacbee.com, 24 Mar. 2026
• Still, the gut–brain axis is opening new doors.
  — Lauryn Higgins, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
• In this graph, the right-hand axis is my heart rate instead of speed.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 6 Jan. 2022
• And there are others who deserve pride of place in the axis as well.
  — Danielle Pletka, National Review, 12 Feb. 2022
• The wheel of time spins on, and the earth on its axis, round and round the sun, hurtling through space.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2025
• In each of these domains, the system is judged on two axes.
  — Anna Meadows, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
• Here, there are two sets on hands mounted on a single axis.
  — Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2026
• My client wanted to add a third axis, but my brain started to hurt.
  — Kathryn Crawford Saxer, The Seattle Times, 25 Mar. 2019
• For many students, the world seemed to be flying off its axis.
  — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2018
• The gut and the brain are connected through the gut-brain axis.
  — Helen Carefoot, Verywell Health, 31 Mar. 2025
• What’s going on in your brain affects your gut via the gut-brain axis.
  — Natasha Lavender, SELF, 10 July 2020
• It’s called the axis, and this rotation is what gives us day and night.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
• But once every four years, the globe stops spinning on its heavy axis.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 10 June 2026
• There’s going to be an axis of heavy rain just to the west of the storm center.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• When the world is off its axis, concepts of truth and trust start to get dislodged.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 3 Oct. 2020
• The tilt of the Earth’s axis has much, much more to do with the seasons!
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 5 July 2026
• The screen’s left side rolls around an axis and expands when more screen space is needed.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 15 Apr. 2021
• Made up of nine coloured squares on each of its six faces, the cube rotates around a central axis.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2019
• The axis of the match shifted back and forth in the early moments.
  — oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2023
• The effect is that thrust is no longer constrained to a single axis.
  — Etiido Uko march 30, New Atlas, 30 Mar. 2026
• Like our sun rises and sets as the Earth spins on its axis, so do the stars in the sky.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 22 June 2018
• The moon rotates on its axis once during each trip around the Earth.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 16 June 2021
• 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 camera sits on a one-axis gimbal that allows for a steady view in flight.
  — PC Magazine, 14 Aug. 2025
• There was a soft one that didn’t melt, and there were real metal axes that were sharp and not sharp.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
• But now look at the piece near the axis of rotation (the yellow line).
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024
• The smart charging system is equipped with a six-axis robotic arm.
  — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
• Moto made a big to-do about its double-axis stainless steel teardrop hinge.
  — Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 14 May 2026
• Seasons come from the tilt of Earth’s axis, not its distance to the sun.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
• Still, Matt’s faith seems to have become the central axis of his life.
  — Kevin T. Dugan, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2021