Example Sentences

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Like sitcom employees, the Clyde’s cooks complain about how busy they are, and they look busy, smacking cleavers through heads of lettuce, slapping turkey slices onto waxed paper, and lavishly squeezing sauces all over them.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2022

If you're using a wooden loaf mold or a baking pan, carefully line the inside with waxed paper or parchment paper so its easier to get the soap out later.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2022

She handed him a prune that was wrapped in waxed paper.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 11, 2019

There was a plastic box with a hinged, smoked cover filled with 5.25-inch floppy disks alongside it, each one carefully protected by a waxed paper sleeve and identified with a sharpie-marked white sticker.

From The Verge • Apr. 1, 2016

Whereas they used to wrap food in waxed paper, now they used Tupperware.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen