chalky

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for chalky
Adjective
  • More than 12,000 structures have been destroyed, many of them homes and businesses that are reduced to ashy foundation footprints.
    Ella Nilsen, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
  • But the ongoing Eaton fire and its ashy aftermath don’t appear to be offering the ending the nursery’s owners had in mind.
    Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • His skin, particularly his face, had an ashen appearance.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Metal railings or a charred brick chimney were all that remained to distinguish the ashen piles.
    Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • More white people claim the credit than Black people certainly.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Black people make up about 14% of the U.S. population but are three times more likely to face hunger than white people, according to the Agriculture Department.
    Maya Eaglin, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • Zuckerberg has just recently emerged from his own masculinist makeover, which turned him from a pale coder to a buff and bronzed bro, and his openly suggestive glance at Sanchez’s exposed chest seemed like an appropriate capstone to Trump’s Inaugural Address.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Birdie wore a coordinating one-piece swimsuit in the same color, paired with pale pink cowboy boots.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Snow even covered sandy beaches along Texas’ coast Tuesday morning.
    Karina Tsui, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The Sexiest Man Alive alum and Fast and Furious actress were photographed on the sandy beach playing football with a couple of their friends.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • First there’s Jill (Helena Wilson), the seemingly mousy one who has remained cooped up with mom decades after the others have bolted.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2024
  • But Denise’s story is effectively just thrown aside as the focus moves on to Denise’s supposedly mousy yet horny neighbor Nicole (Sanda Codreanu).
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
  • The Bureau told the story of a spy adrift, working in the shadow of a faded empire.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The image that really got me on social media this week was a faded photo of a man and woman, standing on what looks like the front steps of their home.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2025
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