Example sentences for: waxed

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

  • "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.

  • Over the weekend we've seen him on both Saturday Night Live and the Late Show With David Letterman . He stood up Howard Stern last night, which probably garnered him more mileage that actually being on the show when Howard waxed repeatedly wrathful, as, although David pleaded flu, callers reported him carousing in the Mercer Kitchen until 4 a.m.

  • Robert Torricelli waxed eloquent about his memories of the "first hearing of the Senate I ever witnessed"--the 1951 Kefauver hearings on organized crime, which he recalled as a festival of anti-Italian prejudice.

  • 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.

  • Pundits, starved for candor among today's politicians, gladly overlooked Goldwater's lousy civil rights record as they waxed nostalgic about his blunt-spokenness.


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