How to Use waxwork in a Sentence

waxwork

noun

• The real rulers are secreted in the second-class carriages but are obeyed because of the splendour of the waxwork rulers in the first-class carriages.
  — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
• The rainbows and steelhead can be caught on tiny jigs tipped with a waxwork or a couple of maggots, and a small ball of Berkley PowerBait molded on a small hook.
  — cleveland, 11 Feb. 2021
• The waxworks were unveiled in May 2018, ahead of the couple’s lavish wedding in Windsor, England.
  — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2020
• And that's because this new look is a waxwork that actually... looks nothing like her at all?
  — Lyndsey Matthews, Cosmopolitan, 25 Oct. 2017
• On Twitter, photos of the waxwork's outing were quickly uploaded and shared.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2018
• Ariana's waxwork isn't the first wax figure to be met with multiple confused emojis by fans.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 May 2019
• Most textbook translations of these Greek classics, the ones dreaded by high school students, read like a 19th-century catalog of waxworks.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
• The bizarre waxworks have our favorite royals deep into holiday celebrations and cradling Meghan's baby bump.
  — Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, 11 Dec. 2018
• Penn gets off less easily, swaddled in and inhibited by the waxwork prosthetics that seem to crop up somewhere in every true-life dramatization these days.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 21 Apr. 2022
• Ah, to be young and meandering around the desert, locating hidden oases to skinny dip in, and trespassing in the buildings of a misanthrope’s roadside attraction full of waxwork figures who seem to move of their own accord.
  — Brooke Knisley, Vulture, 8 May 2021
• Although Evin has remained open, the authorities closed the shah’s older jail in central Tehran and turned it into the Ebrat Museum to showcase the shah’s brutality, complete with waxwork figures of torture victims.
  — Kian Tajbakhsh, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
• The British singer took the opportunity to turn her 15-minutes of waxwork fame at the museum in Amsterdam yesterday into a social media fashion challenge.
  — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2019
• Inside is a waxwork model of Menelik sitting on his original throne; some visitors prostrate themselves in deference.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
• Some of the most striking of Mr. Connors’s photographs are portraits of North Koreans: three schoolgirls as frozen as waxworks, one young man affectionately touching another at a public swimming pool.
  — Arthur Lubow, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2018
• For us, the Age of Discovery is long gone and, for the most part, so are old-fashioned historical epics, other than the occasional Chinese extravaganza or one of those international waxworks with clashing accents.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2017
• On the occasion of the exhibition’s opening, Vogue talked with the renowned Canadian filmmaker about his discovery of these anatomical waxworks, the fantasy of living dissection, and the arduous process of filming 200-year-old actresses.
  — Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024