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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
chalk .
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Examples
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Chastain chalked it up to hard work, dedication, love and respect, and being part of a team that never gave less that its all.
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Chastain chalked it up to hard work, dedication, love and respect, and being part of a team that never gave less that its all.
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Chastain chalked it up to hard work, dedication, love and respect, and being part of a team that never gave less that its all.
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The priest checked the name chalked on the wall above the head of Saucer head's cot.
Bitter Gold Hearts Cook, Glen 1988
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Since the vulgar dialects of the people had neither alphabet nor orthography, he chalked the Latin words for "Penance, Solitude, and Silence," on a large flat stone, and wrote them again below in ancient English, hoping, in spite of his unacknowledged yearning for someone to talk to, that the old man would understand and leave him to his lonely Lenten vigil.
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
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You won't see his name chalked anywhere on Wescoe Beach this spring, but Stephen Colbert is a contender for student body president.
Kansan.com stories 2010
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You won't see his name chalked anywhere on Wescoe Beach this spring, but Stephen Colbert is a contender for student body president.
Kansan.com stories 2010
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It might be via an audiotape this time lest an Air Force smart bomb has his name chalked on the casing if he shows up at a radio station.
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I should have kept my mouth shut, because of course, that’s when my mind leaves the board and circles back to work and the name chalked on the dirty blackboard of the precinct house.
Beach Road Patterson, James, 1947- 2006
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Although it's hard to calibrate digital milestones when e-book sales are growing so rapidly, Harper, an imprint of News Corp.'s HarperCollins Publishers Inc., said that for the first time at its publishing house, a leading nonfiction title chalked up higher digital sales than hardcover sales in its first two weeks on sale.
Shorts 2011
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