chalk

[ US /ˈtʃɑk, ˈtʃɔk/ ]
[ UK /t‍ʃˈɔːk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a piece of calcite or a similar substance, usually in the shape of a crayon, that is used to write or draw on blackboards or other flat surfaces
  2. a pure flat white with little reflectance
  3. a soft whitish calcite
  4. an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
VERB
  1. write, draw, or trace with chalk
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How To Use chalk In A Sentence

  • We're going to work freehand as well as with a few stencils - we might try the idea in the book of using chalk dust, or we may just use the chalks as-is.
  • More particularly, in the hoodedness of her eyes, she reminded me of Malvina Schalkova, the Prague-born artist posthumously famous for the sketches and watercolors she made in Theresienstadt, and whose self-portrait, mirroring an infinity of sorrow, I first became familiar with when I visited Theresienstadt with Zoë. Kalooki Nights
  • Fly fishers in the salt water environment need something entirely different to their freshwater counterpart on the chalk stream, as does the angler who fishes big reservoirs.
  • The air smells like moist potting soil, the skin of potatoes… the damp chalk of limestone.
  • And about 50 meters into the canyon at this narrow section, I encountered a place where I was standing on top of a chalkstone with about a ten-foot elevation drop. CNN Transcript May 8, 2003
  • There is even an evolving language of street markings that uses chalked symbols to alert passers-by to a WiFi network nearby.
  • Klimt's tentative chalk and pencil strokes do little more than outline and emphasize the foreshortened legs, buttocks and genitalia of his subjects, their scrawled lifelessness compromising the images' erotic impact. Modernism's Austrian Rebels
  • The starfish is preserved in soft white chalk, which fills in the interior of the animal.
  • These phenomena are as different as chalk from cheese.
  • Rarely, a person with iron-deficiency anemia may experience pica, a craving to eat nonfood items such as paint chips, chalk, or dirt.
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