How To Use Chalky In A Sentence

There's also a cloying crème brûlée made with semolina, and a refreshingly chalky caramel parfait on a bed of thinly sliced stewed pears.
The region's benign climate, chalky terrain and spectacular summer light is a wine-maker's dream.
These are best deployed as fun colours with a slightly chalky texture so that they appear positive, but not eye-popping.
Waste products were dumped and over the years a chalky layer has been produced.
They had forced down her throat the gobs of chalky calomel mixed with laudanum prescribed by the head-shaking doctor until her gums bled.

The interior of the tunnel is mostly bricked, with a few recently-repaired patches, and tiny lengths of chalky deposit hang down like trainee stalactites.
The lack of urobilin in the feces will be apparent from the light brown to chalky white color of the stools.
But ask him to sit through some hotel cabarets and his hair will rise to the perpendicular and his face will turn a chalky shade of green.
The water at the Croydon end of the stream is chalky which makes it cleaner.
The soils of Champagne are chalky and full of minerals and the climate is on the cool side for making fine table wines.
My hunk was a bit chalky and it was bitter, not buttery. Business, Law, Economics & Society
Note to Nestlé, a sweet cannot be called a gobstopper if after only two minutes in the mouth a chalky, chewable centre is revealed; it’s all about the hardness, the layers, the changing colours and flavours. Archive 2005-09-01
They have a somewhat chalky flavor, which is indicative of sulfates, but rules out regular sodium chloride.
While eryngium are wonderfully trouble-free in dry, chalky or sandy soil, they suffer in heavy ground. Times, Sunday Times
The sitting room walls and ceiling are painted a dark chalky green, offset by pink armchairs. Times, Sunday Times
Incorporating organic material into chalky soils will reduce the alkalinity.
The chalky pastel colours are really on-trend too. The Sun
The chalky soil around Saumur produces the famous Anjou wines.
Both women have the chalky flesh-tones, the lank pelt of body-hair, and the deep folds of embonpoint characteristic of Baldung's unenticing nudes.
Who wants to drink a shake that is tasteless, or one that leaves a chalky residue with a bitter aftertaste in your mouth?
This smells of chalky blackboard rubbers and evaporated milk.
But now we've got these incredible chalky matt finishes that are scrubbable. Times, Sunday Times
The greensand soil and chalky bedrock are similar to the soil found beneath the vineyards of the Champagne region, and are integral to its flavour.
However, once they start to close down, they can be some of the most imploded, recalcitrant white wines out there during their period of hibernation, and will often only show a dusty, chalky soil component on both the nose and palate that often give the impression of corkiness. Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog
Both figures in the shaft were calcified, or seemed as much in their shades of gray and chalky-white. Abomination at the Shilkie
The main point of concern beyond suspension is to ensure that no floury or chalky mouthfeel is induced in the final product.
Its paints are quite chalky, which gives a softness that means you could venture into greens or dusky reds without making the hallway feel dark.
The land is chalky too, which makes those grapes bubble like nobody's business.
Top dressing also helps to build up the moisture retention on light sandy and chalky soils. Times, Sunday Times
The other gem of a cheesemonger is the Fine Cheese Company in Walcott Street which offers platters of Sharpham, Appleby's Cheshire, Montgomery's Cheddar, a fine chalky goat and a basket of well-made bread.
The pouf was retrieved, and soon her face was powdered in a very thin layer of chalky white, barely there.
The flesh is firm, chalky white and incredibly thick for such a small fish.
The starter was priced at €14 and consisted of generous portions of mortadella, salami, delicious olives, smoky cheese, Brie, cheddar, pickled peppers, cornichon, superb ham and a chalky blue cheese.
Each animal has a chalky skeleton.
After the first creamy flush, their milk settles down and is made into soft fresh cheese with a refreshing chalky tang.
The views were to a hazy mid-distance, over fields of green, chalky white and jazzy yellow - a spectacle of colour.
The roads were wet from the sprays of the municipal cleaners and all that was left was the more stubborn of the chalky white outlines.
This bird is none other than the common barn owl, a bird no bigger than a crow, with an unmistakable heart-shaped, chalky white, phantom-of-the-opera mask.
But the weather combined with the intensely chalky soil yields a sparkling wine that is impossible to duplicate in many New or Old World climates.
She strode to the casement window, unlatched it and dropped her gaze to the chalky clearing ringed by juvenile rhododendrons and magnolia trees.
Anyone who has fallen in love and crash-landed can lay claim to one of those chalky outlines.
Ahmed, you, chalky and smudger take the first shift and make sure Johnno is on the gate. Army Rumour Service
His hands are usually full of paint or charcoal or whatever those chalky crayons are called.
It also had ‘splendid views across chalky downland to Savernake Forest several miles away’.
Despite the caked blood and the chalky bruised skin I recognised the victim.
This house was chalky white and resembled a mausoleum.
Her hair was dyed bright orange and her face was powdered a chalky white. AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
Chalky deposits called tophi may appear under the skin around joints and in the cartilage of the ears.
This was a man who never sat while he ate – the farmboy ran too deep inside his chalky Minnesota belly — but watching him sweat like some Haute Fromagier over a bonded slab of Parmesan in an East-Side Trattoria, scraping the sands of brown sugar onto a paper plate, then surgically distributing his treasure perfectly equally over ever parsec of Cracker Soup Surface Area, made me love him even more. Today’s Guest Editor: Christopher! : Scrubbles.net
Our second dive is the almost traditional Sussex coast inshore drift, some shallow chalky ledges at Sailor Rock.
The water in our area is “très calcaire” very chalky and leaves marks sticking everywhere, so, the sooner it's wiped out the better. Une pantoufle - French Word-A-Day
His version is a light assembly of intensely sweet, sun-blush tomatoes, chalky goat's cheese and fabulous olives, just suspended in short, buttery pastry of admirable crumbliness.
Wings of a somewhat chalky white, the anterior with three rufous dots on the costa before the middle, of which the third is the largest, and near the apex a large brown spot, fulvous towards the costa, clouded with bluish white, connected with the inner margin by four indistinct yellow dots; forehead red; head, thorax, and abdomen, white; palpi red at the apex; feet white first and second pairs spotted with red. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
The tangy pine of freshly cut lumber, the chalky smell of Sheetrock mud, and the sourness of paint primer. Mercy Kill
WHERE can I get rhododendrons suitable for chalky soil? The Sun
Top dressing also helps to build up the moisture retention on light sandy and chalky soils. Times, Sunday Times
A flaccid, unwholesome-looking hand was raised slowly, in a kind of deprecatory gesture; then allowed to fall again upon the belly where it lay, with the five fingers, round and chalky-white, extended like the rays of a starfish. South Wind
There was a wide strip of turf on each side of the road bejewelled with poppies and daisies, matted with yellow and white bedstraws, carpeted with clovers, and over all lay a coating of fine chalky dust, legacy of passing cart and carriage. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker
At 10 a.m. got under weigh and turned out of Port Chalky At 4 p.m. came to an anchor in Preservation Bay.
Our most widespread orchid is the common spotted orchid, which grows both in damp woods and on chalky hillsides. Times, Sunday Times
With it, she knocked off the outer chalky-gray cortex of the small nodule of flint, in the process beginning to preshape it. The Mammoth Hunters
Normally this looks better at a distance but here the nag is seen from its most unflattering angle, a chalky blob, the equine equivalent of ‘does my bum look bigger in white?’
You can buy limestone for about £25 per square metre, but anything below £45 per square metre is likely to be chalky and soft and will scratch, chip or mark.
Along the chalky cliff there are caves and stacks standing out in the sea. Times, Sunday Times
Buttery aromas with delicate wood-spice and distant scents of lemon, honey and nut all come together in a fresh lemon backed butter and bitter almond mouthful before a mild and drying chalky finish.
‘Chalky’ feels like spending time becalmed in an oleaginous ocean, noxious gas clouds occasionally swirling round in the dim light.
The hike eastward is over archetypal downland: breezy, chalky and full of sky. Times, Sunday Times
Other teachers preferred to throw the board rubber which if you were lucky got you with the cloth soft covered side rather than the wooden bit, but if you were hit you carried the chalky mark around with you all day on your blazer.
None of the desserts produced such an extreme reaction - though the honey semifreddo was chalky, and the panna cotta was rock-hard and came with a weird assemblage of plums.
They're darker and more plasticky, without the soft, chalky finish. Times, Sunday Times
One that is thriving notably is wild basil, which is mainly found beside grassy paths on chalky uplands. Times, Sunday Times
So, the team has constructed a dew pond, an artificial reservoir traditionally favoured by farmers of chalky landscapes such as those in which the wood is situated.
Top dressing also helps to build up the moisture retention on light sandy and chalky soils. Times, Sunday Times
The region's benign climate, chalky terrain and spectacular summer light is a wine-maker's dream.
Top dressing also helps to build up the moisture retention on light sandy and chalky soils. Times, Sunday Times
The chalky soil around Saumur produces the famous Anjou wines.
Blackthorn spreads very easily, especially on chalky pasture land that has been left ungrazed. Times, Sunday Times
Incorporating organic material into chalky soils will reduce the alkalinity.
Turning my head, I saw Kirby's sharp-nosed profile in the chalky dawn light. THE SAVING GRACES
Textures were subtle, colours chalky and lines clean.
Our most widespread orchid is the common spotted orchid, which grows both in damp woods and on chalky hillsides. Times, Sunday Times
I was a Swamp Thing, lolling around in swimming togs, my skin smeared with chalky white cream and greenish mud.
So that the oesophagus shows up on the X-ray, you have to drink a white, chalky liquid called a barium meal beforehand.
Incorporating organic material into chalky soils will reduce the alkalinity.
The chalkydri bobbed its feathered head and chittered in rapid, high-pitched tones, an aural hummingbird. Etched in Bone
It is found as pale yellow, chalky to porcellaneous masses to 3 cm in size or as chalky films in the conglomerate.
Yet Mr Newbury erects a baffling theory, accusing Chalky of saying that the cement works does no harm.
If the surface is chalky, crumbly or sandy after cleaning, a masonry surface conditioner may help consolidate the stucco.
In hard-water areas, a chalky deposit often forms in pipes and kettles.
Initial seaweedy flavour gives way to chalky cruciferous bitterness. Times, Sunday Times
The sitting room walls and ceiling are painted a dark chalky green, offset by pink armchairs. Times, Sunday Times
Dry shampoo - that chalky, talcy hairspray that whiffs faintly of The Guardian World News
Mountains and chalky crags abut the broad, deep-green swale of larch forests and hay-meadows of the Ampezzo Valley, just an hour's drive east of Canazei.
she turned chalky white
His version is a light assembly of intensely sweet, sun-blush tomatoes, chalky goat's cheese and fabulous olives, just suspended in short, buttery pastry of admirable crumbliness.
I think I added too much pimenton because I love the stuff, but it turned the dressing a bit chalky and harsh.
The chalky soil around Saumur produces the famous Anjou wines.
Abusers of typewriter correction fluid frequently are found with the paraphernalia of abuse around them and the chalky white of the fluid on their face and hands. 9 Definitive diagnosis of TCE intoxication is made by quantitative determination of the compound in the patient's blood, tissue or expired breath. Poison prevention for Delaware, Lehigh Valley, S.E. Pennsylvania
The simplicity and strength of design of his compositions reflect his lasting admiration for Cézanne, but their cool, chalky colours are distinctive.
They have a somewhat chalky flavor, which is indicative of sulfates, but rules out regular sodium chloride.
That process means extreme attention to detail and rather lengthy discussions about adding chalky tones to a blue, or whether to offer a suit jacket in organdy.
We set off out of the village and along a chalky trail into woodland. Times, Sunday Times
When they'd stuck up the paintings, which made the room less like a chalky concrete box, they ran downstairs.
Among the grass on chalky roadsides, knapweed, or hardheads, is opening. Times, Sunday Times
All need light, chalky soil. Times, Sunday Times
Her hair was dyed bright orange and her face was powdered a chalky white. AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
Leafy green ones surround us, their trunks covered with a chalky white bark that has fallen away in sections to show sturdy crisp brown beneath.
They also worked on my physical body in ways that would have caused unbelievable pain in the real world, opening my entire abdominal cavity and coating the insides with a white, chalky substance.
ADMIRERS of ancient Chinese jades have frequently noted the curious white, chalky areas which invade the otherwise firm polished surfaces of many artefacts.
I applied a ton of dark eyeliner and mascara to my eyes and powdered my face a chalky white, which made me look like one of the ‘undead.’
This look uses chalky, veiled shades of pink, green and beige to enhance feminine beauty.
The restaurant's menu - pricey short ribs, a big, chalky version of cod and brandade, a dessert tart made from warm Stilton cheese - seemed a little incongruous in this stiff, uptown setting.
Top dressing also helps to build up the moisture retention on light sandy and chalky soils. Times, Sunday Times
The views were to a hazy mid-distance, over fields of green, chalky white and jazzy yellow - a spectacle of colour.
Although fairly adaptable to a wide range of conditions, they are less happy on very dry or thin chalky soils and most dislike alkaline soils. Winter Garden Glory
It is quite soft, chalky in texture, and consequently does not hold a slip well at all.
They will grow in most soils but dislike thin chalky soil or wet clay and do best in a sheltered site where winter sun will light up the beautiful foliage.
He made me drink this glass of chalky, orangey liquid, insisting that it would make me feel better.
Its Victorian heritage is in evidence in the grand frontages that line the sea front and perch on the chalky cliffs.
Today, they form large deposits of white chalky material, which is mined for use in cleansers, paints, filtering agents, and abrasives.
a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white
It is bright and creamy, with a white chalky exterior, running fresh rich inside. Food Watch
That process means extreme attention to detail and rather lengthy discussions about adding chalky tones to a blue, or whether to offer a suit jacket in organdy.
Languedoc-Roussillon, South of France. It grows on sunny chalky clay soils and benefits from the Mediterranean climate.
My secret: I horded NECCO wafers, those appalling chalky discs that raise glucose welts on the tongue. Linda Novick O'Keefe: Octoberliscious
The embers had gone out, leaving a chalky residue of charcoal and ash.
To immerse oneself in The Enigma of Arrival, say, is to experience the deep, slow calm that comes over its narrator as he paces the ancient chalky downland of Salisbury Plain, takes the measure of the seasons and the wildlife, familiarizes himself with the habits of the local rustics, and makes leisured comparisons between the agricultural rhythms of England and those of his Caribbean homeland. Cruel and Unusual
To give the home the air of a vintage farmhouse, she painted the walls in soft neutrals and chalky pastels, installed beadboard wainscoting, and replaced brass knobs and pulls with glass ones.
A realistically painted bird perches on a feeder against a chalky wall.
Top dressing also helps to build up the moisture retention on light sandy and chalky soils. Times, Sunday Times
The voice turns as chalky white as her features. Times, Sunday Times
The mummy itself is seated upright in meditation with a monk's saffron robes wrapped around its now chalky body.
DROMIO: I looked for the chalky cliffs, but I could find no whiteness in them; but I guess it stood in her chin, by the salt rheum that ran between France and it. The Cartographic Me (Plate I: Legs) | clusterflock
No longer, do the grey legions of workers spend their precious leisure time walking the chalky downs, or being Mr Polly and bicycling the byways for refreshing half-pints of scrumpy.
Why so often this particular shade of pale, chalky green, I wonder?
It is found as pale yellow, chalky to porcellaneous masses to 3 cm in size or as chalky films in the conglomerate.
Wings of a somewhat chalky white, the anterior with three rufous dots on the costa before the middle, of which the third is the largest, and near the apex a large brown spot, fulvous towards the costa, clouded with bluish white, connected with the inner margin by four indistinct yellow dots; forehead red; head, thorax, and abdomen, white; palpi red at the apex; feet white first and second pairs spotted with red. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
It is a great chalky plateau, and might almost be called a steppe or prairie. Expositions of Holy Scripture
In the chalky air of the classroom[Sentencedict], still?
In seconds his body is cold, chalky white. Times, Sunday Times
It is thinly charged with rolled pebbles, septaria, and pieces of a bituminous shale, containing broken Belemnites, and sorely-flattened Ammonites, that exist as thin films of a white chalky lime. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
The chalky white arms squeezing my back are as delicious and comforting as slabs of freshly baked ciabatta. Times, Sunday Times
The water in our area is “très calcaire” (very chalky) and leaves marks sticking everywhere, so, the sooner it's wiped out the better. Une pantoufle - French Word-A-Day
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Finding a meal supplement that could deliver results with mouthwatering taste had yet to become an option, so you were left to suffer through chalky powders in hopes of building some muscle.
No longer, do the grey legions of workers spend their precious leisure time walking the chalky downs, or being Mr Polly and bicycling the byways for refreshing half-pints of scrumpy.
The surfaces are fresco-like, the pigment dry and chalky, and the palette severely restricted.
Along the chalky cliff there are caves and stacks standing out in the sea. Times, Sunday Times
The lack of urobilin in the feces will be apparent from the light brown to chalky white color of the stools.
The baby swallows a small amount of a chalky liquid, and then special X-rays are taken to view the pyloric region of the stomach to see if there is any narrowing or obstruction.
‘And there's a bit of chalky decay there,’ he said, indicating a white patch on another tooth, ‘but that should be reversible.’
We set off out of the village and along a chalky trail into woodland. Times, Sunday Times
The small, fleshy swellings appear on the leaves, buds and flowers and, though they are often red, will eventually turn chalky white from a ‘bloom’ of fungal spores.
The ground was extremely slippery and chalky (actually, it was chalk), so we decided against climbing down into the crater.
I came off from Alfriston at about eight o'clock, walking up a chalky lane to the very top of the Downs.

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