chalk dust

How To Use chalk dust 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.
• Once the smoke cleared and the chalk dust settled, it was seen that the damage was not catastrophic. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
• Now those slight differences of electrical potential had disappeared, like the chalk dust at the end of the lesson.
• Its floor is covered with a fine layer of chalk dust from the calloused palms of legions of lifters.
• Some of the brightest minds this country has ever produced were educated in drafty, unairconditioned schools on chalk dust and pencil lead. Obama urges investment in high-tech education
• The light grey chalk dust sticks on motor vehicle windscreens and other shiny objects and does not easily come off.
• At 30, he is a rarity - a late bloomer who only began to make his mark at an age when most of his contemporaries have had enough of chalk dust and limb stretching.
• The room smelled of chalk dust and dry heat from nickel-plated radiators under long windows that looked out on brown grass. DOLL'S EYES
• I, as a student, preferred the classrooms with dry-erase boards, because the big lecture halls didn't have blackboards, they had greenboards, and between my difficulty in seeing green deuteranomaly and the glare of the fluorescent light tube that some genius had installed right at the top of the board reflecting off the chalk dust, I couldn't see a damn thing but a blank sheet. Here's one from the "What were they thinking?" files.
• Puffs of chalk dust are represented by cloudlets of white spray paint in one drawing on graph paper from the late 1960s.