wax-like
Example Sentences
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White phosphorus is a wax-like substance which ignites on contact with oxygen, creating bright plumes of smoke.
From BBC ● May 6, 2023
Back then, companies used wax-like finishes to keep water from soaking through their clothing.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2022
Here we have mistletoe, and Jeanne watches her mother with a half-smile as she buys a great ball of dainty gray-green leaves and wax-like berries.
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2012
Stearic acid, which reaches the trade in slab form, varies in quality from a soft brown, greasy, crumbly solid of unpleasant odor to a snow white, wax-like, hard, odorless mass.
From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by E. G. Thomssen
Upon the sunken wax-like cheeks the firelight flickered and played ghastly shadow tricks in the hollows of the deep-set eyes.
From The Princess Galva A Romance by David Whitelaw
