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How to use chalky in a sentence

16 example sentences · adjective

Chalky means consisting of or containing chalk. Example: “Their flowers range from the rather formal blossoming of outer London to the wilder flowering of the country, where willow-herb and broom, traveller's joy and campion, go rioting over the chalky banks of the Metropolitan Line.”

Examples of chalky by meaning

adjectiveResembling chalk in some way.

  • a chalky texture
  • Their flowers range from the rather formal blossoming of outer London to the wilder flowering of the country, where willow-herb and broom, traveller's joy and campion, go rioting over the chalky banks of the Metropolitan Line.1950 July, “Traveller's Joy”, in Railway Magazine, page ii (advertisement)
  • The dim, chalky lighting and unsteady camera movements.1988 February 7, K. Kotik, “When A Soap Isn't A Soap”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 7

adjectiveOf a tournament: in which the favorites win, or expected to win, most of the games.

  • It’s funny — even though the bracket has been so chalky, several of the top seeds have looked suspect at times.2019, FiveThirtyEight

More sentences with chalky

  • Situated in Zuozhen District, Caoshan Moon World features badlands composed of mudstone, sandstone, and chalky soil.2025 May, “Tainan Cityscapes”, in Taiwan Panorama, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2025, Readers’ Photos. From the entry Zuozhen
  • I must have seemed pathetic to her, with my orphanish clothes and chalky fingers.2009, Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood, Virago Press (2020), page 88. From the entry orphanish
  • Lacebark pine is more mysterious, flaking dark bark revealing patches of chalky white.2000 December 13, Al Cook, “Early winter offers beauty to visitors at Dawes”, in The Advocate, Newark, Oh., page 4D, column 3. From the entry corn-flakey
  • Three of the isolates produced chalky white aerial mycelium with straight to flexuous (rectiflexible) spore chains.1992, The Journal of Communicable Diseases, page 39. From the entry rectiflexible
  • Burdocks, thistles, dwarf oaks, cottonweed, chalky holes and whitish puddles everywhere.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, pages 22–23. From the entry pauperize
  • If your eggs Florentine have chalky yolks, or if your dessert crêpe tastes oddly of oregano, well, so what?2011 June 16, Lila Byock, “Lina Frey”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry eggs Florentine
  • When the overlying chromatophores are fully contracted, the underlying leucophores reflect the light making the papillae appear “chalky white”.2006, Luciana Borrelli, Francesca Gherardi, Graziano Fiorito, A Catalogue of Body Patterning in Cephalopoda, page 216. From the entry leucophore
  • She is wearing the chalky pink lipstick.2006 October 3, Dominique Paul, The Possibility of Fireflies, New York: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 63. From the entry mauvelous
  • The mousse was excellent, but it had a chalky undertaste that reminded Rosemary of blackboards and grade school.1967, Ira Levin, Rosemary's Baby. From the entry undertaste
  • There's a comforting romance to the space—the chalky white walls, the soaring ceilings, the natural light flooding in through the windows, all of which create a warm, flattering glow.2026 May, Stacie Stukin, “Historic Opportunity”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 74. From the entry romance
  • Creepers threaded the wrecked windows of the coaches, ancient and chalky brown with their riveted seams and welted coamings like something proofed for descents into the sea.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 92. From the entry coaming
  • First chalky Wey, for rav'nous pikes renown'd, Rolls through the meads and fruitifies the ground: His milky waves enrich the thirsty soil, And joyous crops reward the mower's toil.1921, The Contemporary Review - Volume 125, page 775. From the entry fruitify

Meaning of chalky

  1. adjective Consisting of or containing chalk.
  2. adjective Resembling chalk in some way.
  3. adjective Of a tournament: in which the favorites win, or expected to win, most of the games.

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Questions about chalky in a sentence

How do you use chalky in a sentence?
Chalky is used as an adjective. For example: “Their flowers range from the rather formal blossoming of outer London to the wilder flowering of the country, where willow-herb and broom, traveller's joy and campion, go rioting over the chalky banks of the Metropolitan Line.”
What is a short sentence with chalky?
“a chalky texture”
What does chalky mean?
Chalky means consisting of or containing chalk.

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