beeswax

Example Sentences

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She is painted in encaustic, a beeswax medium that is very difficult to work with.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Yes, she has time to harvest honey from her hive, bake it into a cake and make beeswax candles.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2025

And will the beeswax candles that we see in great detail be heading soon to retailers?

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025

The balm is made from a special blend of cold-pressed seed oils that holds up on hot and cold trips, and includes locally sourced beeswax from San Diego.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2024

The concert of so many different birds became so disturbing that Úrsula would plug her ears with beeswax so as not to lose her sense of reality.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez