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Example sentences for: waxed

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Pundits, starved for candor among today's politicians, gladly overlooked Goldwater's lousy civil rights record as they waxed nostalgic about his blunt-spokenness.
Batik dyeing technique uses hot wax to draw or stamp a design on cloth before dipping it in the dye, so that the waxed areas are left undyed.
"There was a tragic element to his life story," waxed the New York Times . Cisneros is the second ex-Clinton Cabinet officer to be indicted--following Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy--and would have been the third, according to pundits, if Commerce Secretary Ron Brown hadn't died in a plane crash.
Through the dictionary's various editions and changes of name, the whimsical definitions waxed and waned, until the 1972 edition purged almost all of them from the text.
Then they waxed romantic about our charming freedom from social hierarchy.