waxen

Example Sentences

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Most significantly, Flanner reported from the trials at Nuremberg, writing that a group of Nazi prisoners “seem already waxen and posthumous, like museum figures of the members of some nefarious long-ago regime which had failed.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

His waxen face was frozen in a perpetual scowl.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2024

Soon after her fourth birthday, in the summer of 1930, a waxen effigy of Princess Elizabeth made its debut at Madame Tussauds, seated on a pony.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2022

After my mother-in-law passed away in February, her closest relatives never stopped chattering to her, setting out a glass of her favorite beer next to her coffin, applying blush to her waxen cheeks.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2018

Mrs. Dalton’s frail, waxen hand went up timidly.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright