Chalk in a sentence as a noun

With chalk. He "wrote" on public property with chalk.

This is the second time I've seen "chock it up" instead of "chalk it up" in the last 2 days. Is this a regional thing?

Experience with chalk or pastels is not required, but would be a bonus. Our artwork hangs on walls around the house, where it is seen by lots of people.

Tl;dr It stretches the imagination less to chalk this up to a group of thugs than to a conspiracy.

You could chalk it up to stress testing that pointed out a flaw. And to GitHub's credit they provided a quick fix and a professional response, kudos to them.

Buy yourself a set of climbing shoes, a chalk bag, and a membership to a climbing gym. Your wrists, not to mention your whole body, will get a lot stronger, and RSI will become a thing of the past.

Good, we've acquitted the guy with children's chalk. Now can we please jail those responsible for the illegal foreclosures?

I know that I need to prepare my canvas with animal glue, chalk, and white lead paint. I need to know my brushes and their properties also, wether they're made hair from a horse, camel, squirrel, sable, etc...

Chalk in a sentence as a verb

Com/ My advice to you is to walk away and chalk it up to a learning experience. Then go and build a paid application that solves a problem people have and that isn't being solved by anyone else.

It's tempting to say that his TechCrunch credentials bias him, but I actually chalk it up to his wanting to write a dev blog with a link-bait title. I don't think the lesson learned has anything to do with Android first at all.

NSA taping all your phone calls and logging your emails, and now you get 13 years for chalk writing. But you still believe in the land of the free and the home of the brave You're Free. Really Free. As long as you're not Brave enough to criticize the rich in chalk.

It would be nice if he'd done more initially but it still takes a lot of character to write that note and apologize vs just blow it off or chalk it up to the past.

It's different when you are younger and everything is new, you just chalk up a major tooling change as just something else to learn. But when the next hot platform or architecture or whatever comes out you get tired of running in exactly the same place.

Not only do the prices stay fixed, but what might look like chalk on the board is actually indelible; the signs have been mass-produced in a factory. I've eaten at so many restaurants that have written signs in chalk and left them the same for months that I assume those signs are months old.

I wouldn't chalk this up as just a competitive response to the relatively low price Apple charges for its OS upgrades. I think Microsoft really wants/needs to accelerate the adoption of Windows 8 even if that means taking a hit on license fees.

The passive aggressive reverts, and the lack of power to abate them sounds like a lack of leverage on her part, and while she may chalk the entire thing up to her lack of pull due to being female, I see this as a symptom of the cabal syndrome you often see in self managed companies. - I think it's obvious that she's sensitive to sexist issues, even on the side of seeing it in places where it may not exist.

Chalk definitions

noun

a soft whitish calcite

noun

a pure flat white with little reflectance

noun

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

noun

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

verb

write, draw, or trace with chalk