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Meanings of waxy in English
Portuguese
impressionável Synonyms
Examples for "pliable"
Examples for "pliable"
1
It is pliable as wax; you can mould it by your will.
2
A coil of strong, pliable wire had been included in our material.
3
Cheesecloth is the softest, most pliable material, and the most easily managed.
4
While the tofu cooks, let them heat enough to become just pliable.
5
MRI supported these findings and showed pliable xenograft cusps in all patients.
1
At least one part of the economy is still pliant: China's currency.
2
The simple natures and forces will always be the most pliant ones.
3
She recoils from everything but the plastic, the pliant, and the indefinite.
4
But he was overwhelmed by the girl and her young pliant warmth.
5
To such a spirit the impossible is possible and opportunity is pliant.
1
Technology giant Samsung is said to be developing a new bendable smartphone.
2
Eventually, these could be used to build bendable mobile phones or other electronics.
3
He overheard Mr. Stern talking about your experiments with bendable glass.
4
My calves were still tight, but my legs were becoming bendable after all.
5
Would it have bendable j'ints, now, same as you and me?
Usage of waxy in English
1
In the 'picnic table control', you will find a waxy orange substance.
2
The waxy tones were in all the visible parts of her flesh.
3
Luckily, the sides are still a bit waxy from the previous day.
4
Water ran in rivulets down waxy leaves-droppedfrom the fruit like rain.
5
The flowers are small, pure white, waxy, and twisted in the petals.
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Even in her waxy whiteness and unnatural emaciation, her face was good.
7
This greasy, sometimes waxy substance is known as adipocere, or grave wax.
8
Small boiling potatoes with a waxy flesh are best for this salad.
9
Haani's cheek was waxy pale; her striking, lime-green hair had gone limp.
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If paper-based or waxy, they can be placed into the recycling bin.
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There were waxy candle stubs and scuffed-out chalk-markings all over the floor.
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I snapped these waxy, cuplike toadstools in a forest near Lough Erne.
13
Taro retains its shape when simmered, and it becomes waxy on cooling.
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And as for this waxy stuff spread over the talc, it's unique.
15
All those little waxy hexagons-doesn'tfit with Mr. Wren's scheme, does it?
16
She stared at those little hands, pallid and waxy against the snow.
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Waxy through the time
Waxy across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common