Example sentences for: wax

How can you use “wax” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Milagros are made out of wood, wax, or bone, but the most common material is silver or a silverlike metal, and they are usually very tiny objects, about one inch in diameter.

  • I comment on that in Ball of Wax .

  • Fifty-eight of you wrote in, 48 with the correct answer, which is, of course: "Depends upon how many Turtles you wanna wax," in the words of one of our winners, Samir Raiyani.

  • Nearer the port, a passage leads to the Museu de Cera (Wax Museum), a tourist trap with a collection of some three hundred realistic wax effigies.

  • A new biography of Billy Tipton--an obscure jazzman who was revealed, only at death, to have been a jazzwoman--elevates its subject into the "pantheon of legendary women who have successfully passed as men" (Holly Brubach, the New York Times Book Review ). Middlebrook, a professor at Stanford, uses Tipton to support the postmodernist contention that gender is a historic construction, but critics mostly wax prurient.


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