wax
Example Sentences
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Particularly striking are Isidora’s eyelashes, which were carved into hot wax as it was applied to the thin wood panel on which the portrait was painted.
Norway and Sweden arrived at races with double-decker wax trucks and fleets of expert technicians.
In the home, a rich family might have one of the new phonographs that played music stored on wax cylinders, but most families were still making their own music, using sheet music or songbooks.
Two South Korean cross-country skiers have been disqualified at the Winter Olympics after a banned type of wax was found on their skis.
From BBC
He used his thumb to break the wax seal and read his sister’s familiar bubbly handwriting.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
