Words similar to waxing

Example sentences for: waxing

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It has been waxing in popularity since the early 1970s.
Ehrenhalt's book may be the best of the new literature on community, because rather than waxing poetic about community in the abstract, he describes actual communities.
The British, whose two principal hobbies seem to be slobbering over small animals and waxing nostalgic about their past, found a way to do both last week.
America may be waxing nostalgic over Dylan, but there has never been a musician less concerned with nostalgia.
That bit of hysteria aside, it's not hard to imagine Safire and the Journal waxing apoplectic if the attorney general had asked for a private meeting to warn the president.