How to Use chalk up in a Sentence

chalk up

verb

• Yu was the fourth different Sun Devil to chalk up the low score of the day this week.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2021
• A lot of writers can chalk up a high body count in a mystery or thriller.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2022
• Rangers pitchers chalked up 42 strikeouts in the three-game sweep.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
• Of course a lot of that could be chalked up to just coincidence.
  — Gisele Grayson, NPR, 23 May 2024
• Poehler chalks up much of the sequel’s success to timing.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
• And with no offense to the Lumberjacks, this is a game Hannan should be able to chalk up.
  — Jim Derry, NOLA.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• Insurance start-ups can chalk up that slow growth to the fact that most are only a few years old.
  — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 30 July 2021
• For a third year, Florida can chalk up the outcome of the six-month season to luck or the fate of wobbles.
  — Tom Urban, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Nov. 2021
• The group can chalk up two more if McLeod-Skinner and Rollins pull off victories.
  — Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2022
• The duo also chalk up a lot of their success to serendipity.
  — Chris O'Connell, Chron, 6 Apr. 2022
• That cannot simply be chalked up to the doubts around his ability to serve a second term.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
• Perhaps it can be chalked up to thorough White House research.
  — Justin Fishel, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2023
• SpaceX was the worst of the bunch, with a 15% drop, which the researchers chalk up to its uniquely stringent requirement: Five days a week in-person.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 16 May 2024
• Many have chalked up Prime’s ads rollout to corporate greed.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
• The host then quipped Mary Ann could likely chalk up her near faux paus to old- fashioned game show adrenaline.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
• That’s largely been chalked up to a matchup issue for Minnesota.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 16 Apr. 2024
• Olivia Wilde — who spent a long summer as her teenage houseguest — chalks up her career to Laurie.
  — A.l. Bardach, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2023
• Your instinct that something is different could be chalked up to that.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 11 July 2023
• Many of McKernan's patients chalk up feeling tired to a bad night's sleep and move forward.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• That way, it will be chalked up as a personnel problem rather than a personal one.
  — Abigail Van Buren, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2023
• Experts chalk up the lack of listings to a number of factors, starting with the massive surplus left by the burst of the housing bubble in 2007.
  — Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 22 Nov. 2021
• With only seven percent of the votes tallied in the Palmetto state, Phillips has only chalked up 1.2 percent of the vote.
  — Victor Hagan, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
• That unit has enough equity this season to chalk up last week as an outlier and not something to be worried about down the road.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 6 Nov. 2021
• Both Hall and Minyard chalk up their roles in founding the food bank as among their crowning achievements of their long lists of business and civic successes.
  — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2021
• Some of this ire can likely be chalked up to the simple fact that some people just don’t like kids, which is, in my view, utterly reasonable.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2023
• Ultimately, Nash-Betts chalks up moments like those and their place in the series as all part of Murphy’s master plan.
  — William Earl, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
• Once again, ConsumerAffairs chalks up these losses to the extreme cost of living.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2024
• In fact, modern terrorism can be chalked up to the invention of dynamite in 1867.
  — Audrey Kurth Cronin, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 2023
• Hoffman chalks up the debate on social media over dealbreaker dates to a shift in dating habits.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• Mayo chalks up the center’s success to his willingness to ask what residents want rather than assume their needs.
  — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024