chalk line
Frequency: 6.03.0 per million words
A line drawn with chalk.
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Examples (10)
- The carpenter snapped a bright blue chalk line on the plywood to guide his cut.
- Before the race, they drew a thick white chalk line to mark the start.
- The children drew a hopscotch grid with a colorful chalk line for each square.
- A faint chalk line on the pavement outlined where the victim had fallen.
- I used a chalk line to ensure the garden bed was perfectly straight.
- The artist began his masterpiece with a single, sweeping chalk line across the dark canvas.
- "Follow this chalk line exactly," the instructor told the trainees.
- To measure the room's center, he stretched a chalk line from corner to corner.
- The rain washed away the chalk line we had drawn on the driveway.
- The teacher drew a chalk line under the title on the blackboard.