Example sentences for: chalk

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

  • What appears, at first glance, to be a genie rising from his soft brown cap turns out, on closer inspection, to be the sinuous arm and towel, in white chalk, of one of Degas' own bathers, a pastel within a pastel.

  • Critics chalk it up to sluttish ruthlessness; defenders argue that, like most women of her day, she had been socialized to build her plans around men.

  • Profiles chalk up the brothers' success to 1) good looks and 2) on-screen intensity.

  • You’ll wade your way through jugglers, fire-eaters, tarot-card readers, lottery-ticket sellers, more mimes, mendicants, and many artists rapidly knocking out portraits, caricatures, and chalk masterwork reproductions on the pavement.

  • The facing page shows a picture of a brick wall scratched full of chalk marks tallying enemy deaths in the Gulf War.


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