On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Chalk. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as calcite or trash and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Chalk in a sentence
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Chalk meaning
- A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO₃).
- A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO₄), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
- Tailor's chalk.
Synonyms of Chalk
Using Chalk
- The main meaning on this page is: A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO₃). | A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO₄), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard). | Tailor's chalk.
- Useful related words include: calcite, trash, shabu, ice.
- In the example corpus, chalk often appears in combinations such as: to chalk, alex chalk, the chalk.
Context around Chalk
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 15 start, 5 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Chalk
- In this selection, "chalk" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, blackboard, alex, chris, art, effect and climbing stand out and add context to how "chalk" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alex chalk previously a, alex chalk refused to and alex chalk. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "chalk" sits close to words such as astonishing, deception and discourage, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with chalk
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Chalk Billiard chalk is applied to the tip of the cue. (11 words)
Alex Chalk refused to endorse Suella Braverman's comments about homelessness. (11 words)
Alex Chalk, previously a defence minister, has replaced Raab as justice secretary. (12 words)
Both Juliet Rylance's Della Street and Chris Chalk's Paul Drake have been given significant storylines, and at times Chalk has found the whole thing a bit depressing, noting how many of the issues faced by his character are still prevalent today. (43 words)
Chalk the Vote, taking place on Oct. 23 outside the Campus Center, is an event where Mac students can use chalk to write why they are voting and how they are getting involved in the election. (36 words)
Crowds are not encouraged to watch the artists create their chalk art, but Coan suggests that visitors make their way through the chalk art route later in the day on Saturday or even Sunday. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Both Juliet Rylance's Della Street and Chris Chalk's Paul Drake have been given significant storylines, and at times Chalk has found the whole thing a bit depressing, noting how many of the issues faced by his character are still prevalent today.
Jordan Rimmington, owner of The Chalk Effect Climbing Project, said: “’The Chalk Climbing Project are honoured to receive the Neighbourhood Fund from South West Water.
And yet, the Denver Chalk Art Festival has hung on for two decades through location changes (first LoDo, now the Golden Triangle) and lots of non-chalk-art competition.
Chalk the Vote, taking place on Oct. 23 outside the Campus Center, is an event where Mac students can use chalk to write why they are voting and how they are getting involved in the election.
Crowds are not encouraged to watch the artists create their chalk art, but Coan suggests that visitors make their way through the chalk art route later in the day on Saturday or even Sunday.
Since the brand did not import into the United States, mathematicians took to ordering boxes online, or through designated “chalk dealers” who began to make a business by supplying the chalk to professors.
Regardless, restoring his chalk outline will take two weeks and scores of volunteers meticulously packing 17 tons of chalk into his towering penis.
Thousands of Saskatoon residents came out to river, grabbed some chalk and attempted to create the world’s longest chalk mural on Saturday afternoon.
Although traditionally composed of natural chalk, modern blackboard chalk is generally made from the mineral gypsum ( calcium sulfate ), often supplied in sticks of compressed powder about 10 cm (4 in) long.
Chalk Billiard chalk is applied to the tip of the cue.
Chalk is a porous rock, so the chalk hills have little surface water.
Chalk is not easily consolidated and the Chalk Group still consists of loose sediments in many places.
Cue tip chalk is not actually the substance typically referred to as " chalk " (generally calcium carbonate ), but any of several proprietary compounds, with a silicate base.
Flint (a type of chert unique to chalk) is very common as bands parallel to the bedding or as nodules embedded in chalk.
Polishing chalk is chalk prepared with a carefully controlled grain size, for very fine polishing of metals.
Sidewalk chalk is similar to blackboard chalk, but it is shaped into larger sticks and often colored.
Some typical examples include around 15 to 20% loading of chalk in unplasticized polyvinyl chloride (uPVC) drain pipe, 5 to 15% loading of stearate coated chalk or marble in uPVC window profile.
This "chalk" is generally a silica based compound rather than actual chalk of the type used used on blackboards.
Alex Chalk, previously a defence minister, has replaced Raab as justice secretary.
Alex Chalk refused to endorse Suella Braverman's comments about homelessness.
Phrases with chalk
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with chalk
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to chalk 21×
- alex chalk 19×
- the chalk 16×
- chalk out 15×
- chalk and 13×
- chalk is 12×
- chalk art 10×
- in chalk 10×
- of chalk 8×
- mr chalk 8×