waxiness

IPA: wˈæksinʌs

Examples of "waxiness" in Sentences

He was growing whiter, too, with the uncanny waxiness of a surface lighted from within.
At last, the waxiness of the face was gone and the milky eyes stared forward, corrupted but defiant.
They go a bit limp and the grease coagulates just enough to coat your tongue with that carnauba waxiness.
We felt the tangyness of the lime juice in the icing is really needed to cut through the fat waxiness of the macadamias in the cake.
The look of waxiness had been increasing, all night long; the breathing was becoming fitful; the tiny figure seemed relaxed in every weakening limb.
Mature leaves, which have had time to develop physical attributes such as toughness and waxiness, require only the protection conferred by the imino acids
Not an all-over waxiness though, there was no blood on my face now but the pine needles had left their mark, I looked like someone with galloping impetigo.
He was a fair-faced youth of about twenty years, with pale reddish-brown eyes, dark hair reddish at the roots, and a singular white and pink waxiness of oval cheek, which, however, narrowed suddenly at the angle of the jaw, and fell away with the retreating chin.
She wore flowery prints, very summer-like dresses — even when it wasn't summer — and she had a funny kind of over-powdered sense about her (as if, if you touched her, a small puff of powder would blast through her pores); at other times, her skin had a waxiness about it (as if, if you touched her, your finger might leave a dent).