Examples of chalk up in a Sentence
let's chalk up her weird behavior to simple nervousness
chalked up a record in singles tennis that is likely to stand for a long time
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Any other symptoms, McKee said, were chalked up to her ongoing menstrual struggles.
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Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 23 May 2025
Executives chalk up Mulan's earnings to the pandemic and the outlet reported that Christopher Robin was considerably less expensive to make.
—Jenna Dejong, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
And they’re being chalked up to figments of a patient’s hallucination!
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2025
Perhaps all of this can be chalked up to establishing leverage for better deals in negotiations — taking Greenland, or at least getting functional control of it, ...
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 2 Apr. 2025
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Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 23 May 2025
Executives chalk up Mulan's earnings to the pandemic and the outlet reported that Christopher Robin was considerably less expensive to make.
—Jenna Dejong, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
And they’re being chalked up to figments of a patient’s hallucination!
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2025
Perhaps all of this can be chalked up to establishing leverage for better deals in negotiations — taking Greenland, or at least getting functional control of it, ...
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 2 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for chalk up
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“Chalk up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chalk%20up. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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