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synonyms for wax and wane

  • ebb and flow
  • good and bad times
  • peaks and valleys
  • systole and diastole
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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wax and wane, such as: ebb and flow, good and bad times, peaks and valleys, and systole and diastole.
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How to use wax and wane in a sentence

Her eldest daughter married in America, and was well known as a modeller in wax in New York.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT
At length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMAN
She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT
Primo de Rivera, who believed the rebellion to be fast on the wane, shipped back to Spain 7,000 troops.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMAN
Two many-branched candelabra, holding wax lights, brilliantly illuminate the game.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFT
Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, NOVEMBER 3, 1894VARIOUS
They were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLING
Tories will wax eloquent on "the pink miasma of revolutionary Radicalism."
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, NOVEMBER 3, 1894VARIOUS
But Mrs. Charmington was already on the wane, and as he had no wish to be her hero now he rather fought shy of her.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO WAX AND WANE

  • ebb and flows
  • good and bad times
  • peaks and valleys
  • systole and diastoles
  • wax and wanes
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