Words similar to waxed

Example sentences for: waxed

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

As news organizations have waned, the corporations have waxed, hiring fleets of workers who shape the news, often by spoon-feeding lazy reporters.
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.
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.
As Emmet Ray, the fictional 1940s jazz guitarist in Woody Allen's unexpectedly delectable Sweet and Lowdown , he lifts his voice about an octave and wears a small waxed mustache as if it were a fancy hood ornament.
Then they waxed romantic about our charming freedom from social hierarchy.