Sentence examples for more waxen from inspiring English sources
The pale imitations offered by Faye and the other Hollywood masqueraders are rendered all the more waxen through proximity to the silver screens and powdered cheeks of a flourishing film industry.
Ingres makes his Odalisque almost surreally curvy, impossibly waxen-skinned, yet more real than any photograph.
In fact I can't think of any competition in the Olympics, or all of SportsWorld, more creepy and disturbing: these largely shapeless girls in their leotards and flaxen-waxen hair and bouncy-wouncy ponytails.
Behind him, his waxen effigy screamed.
No, the face was not waxen.
The power of Toulouse-Lautrec is that the more seedy and unglamorous he makes places and people look (for he is a savage realist, and faces in his pictures are waxen with pain) … the sexier it all is.
On such occasions, Mr. Byrne's sympathetic hands seem repellently waxen.
She looks like her name: jaundiced, waxen and wan.
Attempting to ask for extra pocket money, she is handed a bowl of "waxen fruit".
The husband's face was pale and waxen but it was, nevertheless, a lovely face.
The men had the gray, waxen look that even freshly dead people acquire.
