How to Use axis in a Sentence

axis

1 of 2 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

Axis

2 of 2 adjective

• All that remained to unite the Axis members was the quest to destroy Israel.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
• As a result, Axis troops are diverted to the wrong Italian island.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2025
• 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
• The process itself is the revelation, and Axis dancers have shown Levine that there’s plenty of room to expand.
  — Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
• But the menu also includes Axis venison, brisket tacos, ceviche and Shiner Bock beer bread.
  — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2024
• And and it was stood up to monitor Axis powers and their propaganda through shortwave radio.
  — CBS News, 8 Mar. 2023
• The agency, among its many worries, feared that the Axis powers were at work on biological weapons that would use rats as vectors.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
• The Army's 101st Airborne was among the units that fought Axis troops amid freezing weather.
  — CBS News, 14 Dec. 2024
• The same handle ergonomics and Axis locking mechanism are replicated across knives.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2024
• Italy’s allegiances — first to the Axis powers, then to the Allies — shift and fragment with the tides of war and politics.
  — Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2025
• Fallow and Axis deer are residents of the property, along with an abundance of other wildlife, including turkeys and seasonal ducks.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2025
• 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
• 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
• American and Soviet oil gave the Allies a strategic advantage over the Axis powers.
  — Wal Van Lierop, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
• Further, the Axis powers genuinely threatened the existence of neighboring states.
  — Eric Levitz, Vox, 3 June 2024
• The operation, which took place in 1943, played a key role in the Axis defeat by confusing the enemy around the timing/location of military operations.
  — Dave Quinn, People.com, 28 May 2025
• The Axis occupation of Greece ended with Germany’s withdrawal from the country in October 1944.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
• It was first created in 1942 specifically to serve as a foil to Axis disinformation and over the years became a beacon of hope to people living under all manner of totalitarian and despotic governments.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2025