How to Use chalk in a Sentence

chalk

1 of 2 noun

• 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
• Also in the room is an old piano that Ashley recently gave a new look with chalk paint.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 28 Mar. 2024

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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 | [e-mail], 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
• Asked about the pick, Hovde campaign spokesman Ben Voelkel chalked it up to pragmatism.
  — Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2024
• Many chalked it up as a joke at first, only to Google Gow's name and confirm his firing through news stories.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024