Example Sentences

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Oft-reviled white chocolate may have found an appropriate use sprinkled on top, but my pie was loaded with far too many large shreds and peelings, such that many bites morphed into unpleasant waxiness, then oiliness.

From Seattle Times • May 3, 2023

Then that awful waxiness on Nebraska Cornhuskers Coach Fred Hoiberg’s face on the bench in the Big Ten tournament before he was whisked away to the hospital.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2020

Audiences recalling his 1948 campaign manner found that the waxiness of his smile seemed to have melted, giving way to genuine friendliness and humor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The look of waxiness had been increasing, all night long; the breathing was becoming fitful; the tiny figure seemed relaxed in every weakening limb.

From The Brentons by Dexter, Wilson C.

He was growing whiter, too, with the uncanny waxiness of a surface lighted from within.

From The Brentons by Dexter, Wilson C.