chalk
Example Sentences
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This is a native landscape of dark and gnarly forms of oak trees, which are numbered in chalk to keep track of their stripping.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Residents of Southern California who see a mysterious streak in the nocturnal sky can chalk it up to another SpaceX launch.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
If this were an isolated slip, perhaps viewers could chalk it up to newsroom chaos.
From Salon • Mar. 9, 2026
In San Francisco, Anthropic fans wielded brightly colored sidewalk chalk to ornament the pavement outside of the company’s office with messages of thanks, laudatories such as “You are patriots” and references to Nelson Mandela.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
Alex made another two chalk crosses, one for the tunnel he had left, another for the one he was entering.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
