white chalk

collocation in English

meaningsofwhiteandchalk

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white
adjective
uk
/waɪt/us
/waɪt/
of a colour like that of snow, milk, ...
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chalk
noun
uk
/tʃɔːk/us
/tʃɑːk/
a type of soft ...
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(Definition ofwhiteandchalkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwhite chalk

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He was a black digit marked out bywhitechalk.
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If financial lack of control such as this had been practised in that little shop, the bailiffs would have been in with theirwhitechalklong ago, marking the furniture.
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The soil consists of alluvium,whitechalk, clay, and sand.
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On black construction he usedwhitechalkand brought life from the black background.
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It is awhitechalkcliff face which opens up into spectacular grottos.
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When originally built, these structures must have looked spectacular even from a distance as theirwhitechalkramparts caught the sun.
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The defining characteristic of this type of face paint is a small patch ofwhitechalkaround the nose.
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This exposes thewhitechalkbeneath, which contrasts well with the short green hill grass, and the image is clearly visible for a considerable distance.
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The candy's appearance looked like a skinny stick ofwhitechalkwith a red tip as a fake lit end.
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The drawing is in charcoal and black andwhitechalk, on eight sheets of paper glued together.
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Whitechalkhas been traditionally used in schoolrooms to write on a main blackboard at the front of the room.
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The group which had surveyed where most of the liquor activities were taking place, had secretly marked small crosses inwhitechalkin front of the offending establishments.
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The terms come from the common use ofwhitechalkon the sides of aircraft and vehicles to mark and update numbers of personnel and equipment being emplaned.
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Unlike vermilion or red ochre, made from minerals, red lake pigments are made by mixing organic dyes, made from insects or plants, withwhitechalkor alum.
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