How to Use axel in a Sentence

axel

noun
  • One last chance to throw the quad axel too.
    — Dave Skretta, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2026
  • This is why axels have an extra half-turn.
    — Joy Sung, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Glenn followed the axel with a triple flip and triple toe loop.
    — Brittany Ghiroli, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The quad axel and the seven quads.
    — Sara Germano, Sportico.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • His spills came on quadruple axels.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The triple axel is a very difficult jump for skaters to make.
    — Cheryl Wray, AL.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Bell has practiced a 3½-rotation triple axel but hasn’t tried quads.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Which means, of course, trying the triple axel in both the short program and the free skate.
    — Bloomberg.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • When the triple axel failed her Wednesday her medal hopes vanished.
    — Helene Elliott, latimes.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The edge jumps are the loop, the salchow and the axel, while the toe jumps are the toe loop, the flip and the lutz.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Land a Triple axel and go to the Olympics and nothing will take that away from me.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Chan did not achieve his goal on Friday, falling on a quadruple toe and triple axel.
    — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Sikharulidze had been over-rotated and stumbled out of a double axel.
    — Lanford Beard, PEOPLE.com, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Liu, 14, achieved the feat despite falling on a triple axel to open her debut.
    — Alaa Abdeldaiem, SI.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Hanyu has said his goal for these Winter Games is to be the first to perform a quad axel.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
  • That is all that has been secured so far, and there’s no telling what the North will do once the last triple axel has been twirled.
    — Ryu Spaeth, New Republic, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Hanyu went for a quad axel in his free skate, which has never been landed in competition, but fell to the ice.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Would Yuzuru Hanyu try to regain his—and maybe land a quadruple axel in the process?
    — Joyce Rubin, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Talty first learned to skate at age 2 and remembers landing her first axel at age 8.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Beyond the jumps and triple axels, a huge amount of athletic performance comes down to mental game.
    — Aliza Abarbanel, Bon Appetit, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Patrick Chan, a three-time world champion from Canada, won the team free skate but fell on a triple axel.
    — JerÉ Longman, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The quad axel adds another half revolution to the jump.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 14 Jan. 2026
  • On Saturday evening, the final group of six men came out for their warm-ups and hurled quads and triple axels with abandon.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Malinin landed his first triple axel at 13.
    — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The Russians had made a mistake, with Sikharulidze stumbling out of a double axel.
    — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Malinin planned to open with his quad axel in combination with a triple toe loop but settled for only a quad flip.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Skorniakov worked with him on axels using a harness and a pole, bracing and lifting as his son spun in the straps.
    — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Malinin opened with a big quad flip, opted for a safer triple axel over his quad, and overcame a couple of mistakes along the way to finish with aplomb.
    — Dave Skretta, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Seeing Alysa Liu land a triple axel at Barclays Center.
    — Robert Carroll, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The Oakland native made a face after leaning forward on her double axel landing.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026

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