Polishes a car after it's been washed

Usage examples of waxes.

Candles can be and have been made of beeswax, tallow from animal fat, spermaceti from the sperm whale, waxes from various plants, paraffin wax derived from petroleum, and combinations of these things.

Sorrow waxes heavy within meI fear that a Leaving such as this will herald the final days of the Talith.

At the beginning of time the Universe was endowed with a certain fund of both, which neither waxes nor wanes with time, but is merely exchanged among bodies, like silver pennies in a market-place.