The covering on the jar was waxy to prevent rain from getting inside. From LearnThat.org.
As shiny as a waxy pippin. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
1 lbs baby new potatoes, cut into 1 inch pieces (I subbed plain waxy potatoes) 10 oz canned whole tomatoes, squeezed to shred. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
It goes on really smooth, without any kind of waxy feel. From Wordnik.com. [GIGI GOES GAGA] Reference
The lip balm and lipstick I find to be very "waxy" and the lip gloss is gloopy. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
Kellogg recalls 4 popular cereals with 'waxy' odor, flavor it says could make people sick. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
They dismissed the suggestion that the fuel itself froze or became "waxy" as icing occurred. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
Yeah, they did a really good job on this one, at least from the neck up. the belly & hands look very "waxy" though. From Wordnik.com. [Gossip Rocks Forum] Reference
The first was a waxy-looking scar on his left leg. From Wordnik.com. [Tender Mercies] Reference
In waxy hotel lecture halls, she was paid to stand up front. From Wordnik.com. [The Score] Reference
Lying in each waxy bowl were perhaps a dozen pickled herring. From Wordnik.com. [Stones] Reference
They get bonuses for keeping their mustaches extra long and waxy. From Wordnik.com. [Go Ahead] Reference
There were plugs of hard waxy material in the cut ends of the pipes. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Be Anything] Reference
This waxy material is derived from petroleum, a nonrenewable resource. From Wordnik.com. [Lead? Phthalates? Keep harmful chemicals out of your home] Reference
Even in her waxy whiteness and unnatural emaciation, her face was good. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
The bad news is that the oil is as waxy and viscous as shoe polish in a can. From Wordnik.com. [Oil Find In Uganda Cause For Hope, Caution] Reference
We have already pointed out that muriate of potash tends to produce a waxy potato. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
With temperatures in the 120s, by 9: 00 a.m. my Crayolas were promptly a waxy mess. From Wordnik.com. [Christine Negroni: Swimming in What?] Reference
His face was of a waxy pale tint, but transparent looking, and so was the reddish mark. From Wordnik.com. [Real Ghost Stories] Reference
Hugh McDonald, a young press aide, sat waxy-faced, hugging Kennedy's shoes to his chest. From Wordnik.com. [Bobby's Last, Longest Day] Reference
She never moves at all, having consumed all my shoe box cardboard with its waxy poison coating. From Wordnik.com. [Rot] Reference
It did look nice in waxy wrap slipped into the paper bag with Franchini's printed red and green. From Wordnik.com. [Beckett not Joyce] Reference
And unlike Prozac, they seemed to cause a dangerous buildup of waxy material on people's heart valves. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Help From Serotonin] Reference
She touches the match to the waxy edges of the raisin bran wrap and closes the stove. From Wordnik.com. [Night Navigation (excerpt)] Reference
Inside were 24 jars of grape jelly, each jar in its own waxy brown cell, a gift from one of my dad's friends. From Wordnik.com. [A Life Changed by a 1950s Christmas] Reference
Cook until waxy looking, then take the yolks of 2 eggs and 1 heaping tablespoon of flour and 1 1/2 cupfuls milk. From Wordnik.com. [The Suffrage Cook Book] Reference
The case-study patients 'heart valves were coated with a white, waxy substance that kept them from closing fully. From Wordnik.com. [Weighty Problems] Reference
~ The purified phosphorus is a pale yellowish, translucent, waxy solid which melts at 43. 3° and boils at 269°. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
I wish my hands could still carve the cuneiform of beauty on the waxy emptiness of thought, but all that's left me. From Wordnik.com. [The Deterioration of My Handwriting] Reference
Even if you haven't heard the anecdote, the piece's waxy spookiness itself conveys the same kind of fascinating dread. From Wordnik.com. [Our Man In Venice] Reference
At night DiChiara woke up and looked at her uncovered arm -- the waxy, unnatural grafts, the still-gaping fasciotomies. From Wordnik.com. [The Day That Changed America] Reference
Quickly recognizing the waxy whiteness for what it is, the officer shrugs, "Guess we're a little late.". From Wordnik.com. [Pretty White Gloves] Reference
Our freighted Icarus was soaring on well-oiled wings: how soon might his waxy pinions droop under the fierce gaze of the sun!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Weren't those first images, he asked himself, undecipherable, waxy smudges on discarded paper that had been wrapped over meat?. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
But the balance changed in July, when researchers start-ed identifying fen-phen users with waxy deposits on their heart valves. From Wordnik.com. [After Fen-Phen] Reference
As people age, the nerves in their cerebellum, the command center for movement, begin to lose their waxy myelin coatings and die. From Wordnik.com. [Hard to the Core] Reference
In the case of beets it seems to have an effect in lessening the percentage of crystallisable sugar, while potatoes are rendered waxy. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
This can include plants with thick, succulent leaves such as sedums and sempervivums, or those with waxy leaves, for example phormiums. From Wordnik.com. [Gardens: Roof gardens] Reference
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