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.

  • In Idaho and Oregon, Eva Castellano has continued a tradition she learned from Mexico of making coronas (crowns) made of waxed and paper flowers to be worn by the young girl.

  • As news organizations have waned, the corporations have waxed, hiring fleets of workers who shape the news, often by spoon-feeding lazy reporters.

  • A beard consisting solely of the hairs between the lower lip and the chin, often waxed and shaped in an upward curve.

  • 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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