AXIS in a Sentence
Learn AXIS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
11 example sentences for AXIS, such as:
1. It formed the pole and axis of this heathery world.
2. The earth revolves both round the sun and on its own axis.
3. His doctor checked the optical axis of the eye very carefully.
4. The earth's axis is the line between the North and South Poles.
5. The Earth revolves about the axis which joins the North and South Poles.
2. The earth revolves both round the sun and on its own axis.
3. His doctor checked the optical axis of the eye very carefully.
4. The earth's axis is the line between the North and South Poles.
5. The Earth revolves about the axis which joins the North and South Poles.
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Meanings and Examples of AXIS
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axis
n. the main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged
n. a straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions
Classic Sentence:
1 Owing to the density of the crowd of reposing whales, more immediately surrounding the embayed axis of the herd, no possible chance of escape was at present afforded us.
2 Now, by reason of this timely spinning round the boat upon its axis, its bow, by anticipation, was made to face the whale's head while yet under water.
3 It formed the pole and axis of this heathery world.
Example Sentence:
1 Then Tehran was bracketed, along with its old enemy Iraq, and North Korea, in President Bush's axis of evil.
2 His doctor checked the optical axis of the eye very carefully.
3 In physics, a torque is a vector that measures the tendency of a force to rotate an object about some axis.
4 Just think of what work it would make with the day and night! You see the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn round on its axis.
5 The orbital muscles keep the visual axis of both eyes aligned on the center of what you are looking at.
6 The earth revolves both round the sun and on its own axis.
7 The earth's axis is the line between the North and South Poles.
8 The Earth revolves about the axis which joins the North and South Poles.