Example sentences for: waxing

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Two hundred pages further on there is less exuberance in the circumlocution “that fluid so terribly scarce in the region,” and in three other references water is simply water . Giles is not always waxing poetic and may, like other explorers, be useful as a source for the history of Australian and general English.

  • After inveighing against the raping and pillaging at Woodstock '99 (a video segment of concert-goers is captioned "250,000 Attendees & Hopped-Up Psychos"), John McLaughlin finds himself waxing nostalgic for the hippies of yesteryear: "At the first Woodstock there was [also] heavy rain, there were [also] people standing around [under a hot sun], there were long lines for food, but they were respectable."


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