How to Use y-axis in a Sentence

y-axis

noun

• No one can know for certain—the scientists who graph temperatures keep having to lengthen the y-axis.
  — Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026
• The string will now form a straight line that intersects the y-axis at 12—giving the answer of 3 × 4 = 12.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026
• What is the height of the potential, or the y-axis value of the curve that describes inflation, during the final ~60 or so e-foldings of inflation?
  — Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
• One way to represent a complex number like a + ib is as a point on a plane, where a is the position on the x-axis (which can be thought of as the real number line) and b is the position on an imaginary y-axis.
  — Daniel Garisto, Quanta Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
• The drive belt is looped through the movable chassis and along the y-axis in such a way that turning one motor while holding the other in place causes the penholder to move at a 45 degree angle to the rails—if the MiniKit were a compass, this would be along the NE to SW line.
  — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2020