Example sentences for: chalk

How can you use “chalk” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Plant scientists can chalk up other ‘firsts’ in RNA-mediated gene silencing.

  • They cite her unsuccessful suicide attempt and chalk her problems up to obsession with her dead father--this is also Birthday Letters ' position.

  • The catcher is right there in the thick of the action, but no more interesting than the chalk lines that delineate the batter's box.

  • Critics chalk up Calder's previous low standing to the abundance of sculptures he made in the '60s for corporate plazas, which are labeled "mostly boring" (Robert Hughes, Time ). (Click here for the National Gallery site.)

  • Chalk up two more lines.


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