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

Pink; Summer A small shrub about a foot high, with pretty pink wax-like flowers in summer.

From Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by Cook, Ernest Thomas

They stood before each other now, Lester pale and rather flaccid, Robert clear, wax-like, well-knit, and shrewd, and one could see the difference time had already made.

From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Dreiser, Theodore