chalk up

Example Sentences

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Around 300 National Trust staff and volunteers will be involved, carrying about 17 tonnes of fresh chalk up the steep hillside, which in places has a gradient of roughly one in three.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

Those who know Michael, who is also a Stanford-trained lawyer, chalk up his public bellicosity toward Anthropic to a fierce professional loyalty.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

LeBron James strolled to the scorer’s table Tuesday night and went through his pregame routine of throwing chalk up in the air, an iconic moment in his NBA-record 23rd season and on his 41st birthday.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025

Let’s chalk up your girlfriend’s comments to momentary bad judgment.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 17, 2025

He began to chalk up a list of all the student’s names.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss