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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Some of this can easily be chalked up to the off-season nature of my trip, as well as the novelty of the itinerary: never before has a cruise ship visited these ports in winter, because never before has a ship, like the Charcot, been capable of operating in the ice.
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Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2025
To that end, the THR article posits that some of the actions Lively dinged Baldoni for in her lawsuit — constant hugging, over-sharing — could be chalked up to misunderstandings tied to his faith.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2025
Economist Torsten Slok chalked up the misgivings to storm clouds out of the White House as President Donald Trump and his lieutenant Elon Musk seek to slash the federal bureaucracy through job cuts.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025
Chief among other factors, Napoleon’s ultimate defeat at Waterloo in 1815 can be chalked up to this dearth of capable personnel.
—Pat Fallon, National Review, 4 Feb. 2025
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Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2025
To that end, the THR article posits that some of the actions Lively dinged Baldoni for in her lawsuit — constant hugging, over-sharing — could be chalked up to misunderstandings tied to his faith.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2025
Economist Torsten Slok chalked up the misgivings to storm clouds out of the White House as President Donald Trump and his lieutenant Elon Musk seek to slash the federal bureaucracy through job cuts.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025
Chief among other factors, Napoleon’s ultimate defeat at Waterloo in 1815 can be chalked up to this dearth of capable personnel.
—Pat Fallon, National Review, 4 Feb. 2025
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“Chalk up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chalk%20up. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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