Sample Sentences for
wax
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wax as in:  the moon is waxing

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    My imagination, sternly checked by the exigencies of my profession, waxed secretly to colossal force.  (source)
    waxed = gradually increased
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    He sees the hair that grows on her legs between waxings, the black roots that emerge between appointments at the salon, and in these moments, these glimpses, he believes he has known no greater intimacy.†  (source)
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    In the next hour I got the two women waiting to their manicures, ordered lunch for Lola, did the receipts from the day before, and between two eyebrow waxings and an underarm job I heard every gory detail about Talinga's most recent disastrous blind date.†  (source)
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    The intensity of her insanity waxes and wanes with no predictable schedule or trigger.†  (source)
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    The happy and astonished mother strained him to her breast and exclaimed— "It waxeth late—may it please your Majesty to rise?"†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "It waxeth" in older English, today we say "It waxes."
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    Jobless, we sat outside at sidewalk cafes ... as rush hour waxed and waned around us.  (source)
    waxed = gradually increased
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    He said to Moses, Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them.  (source)
    wax = increase
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    Its light waxes and wanes.†  (source)
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    He wonneth well-faring, nothing him wasteth Sickness nor eld, nor the foe-sorrow to him Dark in mind waxeth, nor strife any where, The edge-hate, appeareth; but all the world for him Wends as he willeth, and the worse naught he wotteth.†  (source)
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    Sarariman on subway listen For Sushi K like nuclear fission Fire-breathing lizard Cojiro He my always big-time hero His mutant rap burn down whole block Start investing now Sushi IC stock It on Nikkei stock exchange Waxes; other rappers wane Best investment, make my day Corporation Sushi K Squeaky is walking straight uphill, paralleling a fresh motorcycle track that has cut deeply into the loose yellow soil.†  (source)
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    And well ought Our Lord be signified to an hart, for the hart when he is old he waxeth young again in his white skin.†  (source)
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    The ladies, since the gentlemen entered, have become lively as larks; conversation waxes brisk and merry.†  (source)
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    Until that within him a deal of o'erthink-ing 1740 Waxeth and groweth while sleepeth the warder, The soul's herdsman; that slumber too fast is forsooth, Fast bounden by troubles, the banesman all nigh, E'en he that from arrow-bow evilly shooteth.†  (source)
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus

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    Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger, and a snake surrounding a large letter H. "Hurry up, boy!" shouted Uncle Vernon from the kitchen.  (source)
    wax = a soft or moldable, oily substance
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    He scraped from it a sliver as thin as a hair, wrapped it in wax, and added it to the pan in which the lead had melted.  (source)
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    Matthewson waxed jubilant.  (source)
    waxed = spoke
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    Ear wax!  (source)
    wax = a soft or moldable, oily substance
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    I could lay claim to a log and make bad jokes, contribute gossip, wax and wane about group politics.  (source)
    wax = wax and wane is an idiom meaning to speak at length with varying degrees of intensity
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    set this up with wax Upon old Brutus' statue:  (source)
    wax = a soft or moldable, oily substance
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    She pressed her lips together, feeling the wax of her new lipstick, Revlon Cherries in the Snow.  (source)
    wax = soft substance
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