waxen
Example Sentences
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Her voice, paired with Mr. Carey’s writing, creates a beguiling audio backstory for a woman whom time has rendered as unreal as one of her waxen figures.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
“That’s a lie,” was his standard rejoinder, strangely accompanied by a waxen smile that flickered on and off as though set on a faulty timer.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2023
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
But soon the potatoes and the chicken and the carrots had all tasted the same to her, blanched and waxen and gray.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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