How to Use chalk in a Sentence

chalk

1 of 2 noun
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  • He put chalk marks on the stage to show the actors where they should stand.
  • The teacher handed her a piece of chalk and asked her to write the answer on the chalkboard.
  • They drew pictures on the sidewalk with colored chalks.
  • On the other end of the spectrum, the chalk had a good day.
    — Jim Litke, ajc, 18 Mar. 2022
  • One of the men used a piece of chalk to mark each passing day.
    — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The sound of chalk on a chalkboard is pretty darn bad, too.
    — Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 8 June 2022
  • The large-scale work is drawn in thick, simple lines filled with white chalk.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Moss is all chalk this week, but this price is simply too good to pass on.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Get a measuring tape and mark the distance with tape or a piece of chalk.
    — Leah Groth, Health, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Cracks and other features were marked by clouds of white chalk where the climbers had grabbed hold.
    — Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post, 3 June 2022
  • Use heavy-duty white glue to attach the clothesline pieces over the chalk lines.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Messages were inscribed on posters and in chalk on the sidewalk.
    — New York Times, 4 June 2022
  • The cardboard is indeed more massive (100 grams vs. 1 gram for the chalk).
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Use white stick chalk to mark the Big Dipper, then drill through the points with a medium drill bit.
    — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
  • Let your little one get a bit wild with their hair with this fun hair chalk kit.
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Alongside the chalk drum in the grave was long bone pin, which might have held a shroud in place, and a clay ball, that a child might play with.
    — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2022
  • For the first time, the festival will include a chalk art contest.
    — Norma Cavazos, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The set also comes with two pieces of chalk, three slate labels, and a corkscrew wine opener.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 9 May 2023
  • Get the kids outside in the driveway or on a sidewalk this Easter with some fresh chalk.
    — Woman's Day, 14 Feb. 2023
  • There will be food trucks and an area for children to draw with chalk, so bring the whole family.
    — Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • They are made of calcium, old chalk, and the sound of wooden cubes rattling around in a jar.
    — Mia Mercado, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • On top of it all, the wine has a distinct mineral note that combines saline and chalk dust.
    — Michael Alberty | , oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Life slows a bit, fresh berries burst on the scene and neighborhood kids take to the sidewalks with chalk art and lemonade stands.
    — Michael Alberty, oregonlive, 5 July 2023
  • There’s no mound in this version of the game, just a rectangle marked off with chalk 50, not 60, feet from home plate.
    — Robert Gauthierstaff Photographer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Scrawled in chalk on the door are figures for mortar shells, smoke shells, shrapnel shells, flares.
    — Andrea Rosa and Jamey Keaten, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2022
  • Binggeli chalks that up to the fact that steep descents in the Swiss Alps make the pairing of rim brakes and carbon wheels less than ideal.
    — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Lay out a course around the lawn by marking trees and large rocks in chalk (or use chairs, buckets, or baskets).
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 6 May 2022
  • Kinda chalk picks, but the Dodgers are stacked and the Astros just have a knack for making a deep run year after year.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Andrews caught the ball, lowered his shoulder and extended just over the white chalk of the goal line.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023
  • He wasn’t done defensively, diving across the chalk of the right field line to grab Jake Burger’s fly in the eighth.
    — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2022
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chalk

2 of 2 verb
  • She chalked a message on the side of the barn.
  • He chalked the stage to show the actors where they should stand.
  • The plan is for the founders to meet again to chalk out next steps.
    — Saritha Rai, Bloomberg.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Adams crossed three times in the half, but one got chalked off.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Pruitt chalks this up to the abundance of wildfires and droughts that plague the West.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 24 Apr. 2023
  • My favorite part of the chat: Chandler chalks out the Coryell route tree.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Channick chalked this up to a bug and said it, too, had been fixed.
    — Jeremy B. Merrill, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Then there are the people who chalk it up to a mystery.
    — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Stewart chalks a cue and then leans over the table and breaks.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The skeptics could chalk one No. 1 album up to dumb luck.
    — Meaghan Garvey, Billboard, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Some chalk that up to nerves that come with the first college football game.
    — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2020
  • If all goes to chalk, those two schools would meet for a Final Four berth.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Mar. 2022
  • As for that cold spell, head coach Jon Scheyer chalked it up to bad luck.
    — The Courier-Journal, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Phil, the quieter of the pair, chalks it up to pure coincidence.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The lines are chalked, the baseballs rubbed down and the rosters trimmed to an opening day-friendly 26.
    — R.j. Coyle, Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Like his neighbors, Hill chalks it up to the nature of business.
    — Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 1 Sep. 2023
  • One day, the black students arrived to find that someone had chalked a racial slur on the street.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2019
  • Maybe just chalk it up to a weird game and an LC offense that can pose problems.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Levy Park goes above and beyond with board games, card games, arts and crafts and chalk for kids to draw on the sidewalk.
    — Vicki Salemi, Chron, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Sand the lid and rails, chalk it up, and then practice before going afield.
    — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 7 Feb. 2023
  • But, his teenage mind chalked the incidents up to wrong place, wrong time — rather than to his race.
    — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2023
  • As the company's founder, Park chalks that up to sticking to a core message.
    — Jeff Benjamin, Billboard, 31 Dec. 2019
  • If Levin prevails, J Street will chalk it up as a major win.
    — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Fiji had one chalked off one minute later, and then Owens got sin-binned.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2019
  • The team hasn’t won an opener since 2004, so at this point, just chalk it up as a loss and focus on the second game.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Today, Lyles has stabilized and chalks her success up to the strength of her faith.
    — Ryan Michaels | The Birmingham Times, al, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Even Farah Fawcett once chalked the show’s No. 1 status up to bras (or lack thereof).
    — Lindsey Bahr, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The Cowboys tried to chalk it up to the Southern California winds.
    — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The drummer chalked it up to building a fan base one show at a time — and never going through the motions.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Flashy monogrammed prints have shown no sign of slowing down—chalk it up to the Y2K renaissance.
    — Shelby Ying Hyde, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Oct. 2021

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