A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
Owing to this publicity, it seemed desirable to investigate the chemical composition, and to compare its physical properties with other waxlike substances.
The name “paraffin” generally applies to a colorless and tasteless waxlike substance that is solid at ordinary temperature.
And here are two wounded men on stretchers, their faces waxlike and shrunken, nostrils pinched, eyes closed and shadowed, bloodless hands clutching the sides of the ambulance; behind them huge drops mark their course through the dust.
Coccidæ, which secrete from their bodies a waxlike substance, especially the Chinese wax insect (Coccus Sinensis) from which a large amount of the commercial Chinese wax is obtained.
The grand lady forgot her sentiment, and the little waxlikefigures gave way.
My daughters, Herr Schubert," said the tall lady, with a circumflex wave of her white hand that included the waxlike figures on each side the stove.
Several months later Florrie arrived, gay, brilliant, and beautiful, with her waxlike complexion as unlined by care as if it had been on the face of a doll.
The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax.
A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.
Flowers that cannot be painted by brush or in coloring to do justice to the delicate waxlike originals.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waxlike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
