chalk up

Example Sentences

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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

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

From MarketWatch • Dec. 17, 2025

The Basque goalkeeper got a hand to the ball and should have kept it out, but Lewandowski was able to chalk up his eighth league goal of his injury-hit, stop-start season.

From Barron's • Nov. 22, 2025

Watkins had the easiest finish of the night to chalk up his ninth of the campaign when Bailey's effort fell kindly into his path just five yards out.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2023

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

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss