How to Use chalk up in a Sentence

chalk up

verb
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  • 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
  • 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
  • Perhaps it can be chalked up to thorough White House research.
    — Justin Fishel, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • It cannot be chalked up to how the poor are counted: Different measures spit out the same embarrassing result.
    — Matthew Desmond, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Since the onset of the initial delta variant, there has been a swift increase in cases among children who aren't yet vaccinated, which experts chalk up to the faster spread of the virus.
    — Marlene Lenthang, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Hogan has taken the long view: that Republicans will chalk up more losses this fall before Trump’s grip on the party loosens further.
    — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 24 July 2022
  • Industry sources chalk up such cases to the work of a few bad actors, rather than inherent flaws with the clinical model.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 2 Nov. 2023
  • As consumers spent more, companies chalked up more revenue.
    — Forrester, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Both teams would chalk up one more score, reaching halftime with Kirtland holding a 28-13 advantage.
    — cleveland, 8 Nov. 2020

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