How to Use ball of wax in a Sentence

ball of wax

noun phrase

• Hollywood’s a whole different ball of wax.
  — Terry Terrones, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
• Fascinating but inclusive – in a way, that seems to describe the whole ball of wax.
  — John Werner, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
• Journalism, however, is a different ball of wax.
  — Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
• This colony has seen more than its fair share of violence, accidental deaths, and even manslaughter, but a killing in cold blood during an otherwise pretty steady time is a whole other ball of wax.
  — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
• While Charlie Brown looked for the meaning of Christmas, a local writer said how Sacramento may have started the whole jingle ball of wax.
  — Steve Large, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
• Careers made and ruined, departments torn apart, writing programs turned into sensitivity seminars, political witch hunts, public opprobrium, ignorant media attacks, the whole ball of wax.
  — Emily Eakin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026