Sentence examples for axis like from inspiring English sources

Bedrooms are arranged on a linear axis like cabins of an ocean liner.

Levin M. Is the early left-right axis like a plant, a kidney, or a neuron?

Samsung's phone wraps slightly around the vertical axis, like a shoehorn.

The shuttle was also showing a tendency to roll on its longitudinal axis like a chicken on a rotisserie.

To conceptualize spin, imagine an electron, proton or a neutron spinning about its axis like a top.

The train car spins on its axis like a wheel of fortune, sending Patrice and Helen into a swirling vortex.

Collagen fibers can be regarded as axis-like organic matrices: when CDHA is formed on the surface of collagen fibers parallel to the c-axes, the c-axes are oriented parallel to the fiber orientation (Sato 2007).

"I don't understand this axis idea, like for the French king," he said.

The process was a bit more systematized, with a star plot diagram with axis for things like stress.

Seed: 1. Leaf: main axis with prickle-like glands; leaflet midrib generally ending as sessile, head-like gland <= 0.5 mm.

The phallometric responses of bisexual teleiophiles could be plotted against an X-axis like that used in Figs.  1, 2, 3, 4, and 7.