wax

Example Sentences

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“Fed leaders would be well served to skip opportunities to share their latest musings. The swivel-chair problem, rhetorically waxing and waning with the latest data release, is common and counterproductive,” Warsh said last April.

From MarketWatch

In recent decades—since the 1970s—the Broadway musical has waxed and waned in terms of both quality and popularity, with fertile and fallow periods.

From The Wall Street Journal

She flicked a piece of wax from her ear with her claw.

From Literature

The girl unzips her lunch box and pulls out something wrapped in waxed paper that lands with a thud in front of me.

From Literature

As every guy in his late 50s who waxes poetic about the way things used to be, any time I get the opportunity to do that again, I’m going to take it.

From Los Angeles Times