Sentence examples for coating of wax from inspiring English sources

Daniel brought a photograph of Truman to a local barbershop and left with his hair swept neatly to the side, beneath a thick coating of wax and hairspray.

Other Cecropia plants that do not harbour Azteca ants are protected against leaf-cutting ants by a thick coating of wax on the stem, which prevents the latter from climbing up.

One reason lies in the pines' greater resistance to winter desiccation damage at high elevation owing to the thick coating of wax and cuticle on the surface of their needles.

Gestetner users typed on surprisingly robust skins or membranes, and the hammer of the type bar removed a coating of wax from the skin, allowing ink to pass through the holes left by the letters, onto the paper.

It is lined with a thin coating of wax, which prevents the egg from drying out before the larva has had time to fully develop.

A coating of wax prevents glaze from sticking to the base of the ceramic, where it would "glue" your object to the base of the kiln.

Someone puts a coat of wax on them, and the fenders aren't dented in.

Film prints to be used for projection are given a coat of wax over the sprocket-hole areas.

A thin coat of wax cannot stop radar waves from bouncing off a car's highly reflective metal surfaces, Dr. Buchholz said.

They recoil in horror as I fire up a howling blowtorch to lay a coat of wax on the twining bodies of a Rodin kiss.

Still, the end of March sends the skis and boards to the back of a closet (with, one hopes, a coat of wax), and out come the golf clubs and garden tongs.