waxen

How To Use waxen In A Sentence

• The restaurant area is aglow with vibrant shades of turquoise and tangerine, while huge candles drip waxen stalactites down one wall.
• The trees around a Shintô shrine are specially under the protection of the god to whom the altar is dedicated; and, in connection with them, there is a kind of magic still respected by the superstitious, which recalls the waxen dolls, through the medium of which sorcerers of the middle ages in Europe, and indeed those of ancient Greece, as Theocritus tells us, pretended to kill the enemies of their clients. Tales of Old Japan
• My skin is as pale and waxen as a corpse, dotted here and there with freckles.
• Clouds of metallic blue butterflies dispersed off their gold and waxen perches and rippled over his head.
• His face was nearly colorless, his skin pale and waxen.
• His father's skin, once ruddy from a lifetime of Montana ranching, has gone waxen and slack.
• And Hope's eyes remained closed; her chocolate hair spread in a cloud behind her head, waxen complexion and slowed breathing giving her the look of a sleeping fairytale princess under an evil curse.
• The floor is a waxen, polychromatic coat of sharp, glistening shards.
• His face was nearly colorless, his skin pale and waxen.
• Her hair, a lustrous shade of auburn, waves about her waxen face.