chalk outline
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An outline drawn with chalk, famously used at crime scenes.
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- The detective stared at the chalk outline on the pavement where the body had been.
- Rain began to fall, slowly washing away the stark white chalk outline.
- In the movie, the first thing you see at the crime scene is a grim chalk outline.
- For their art project, the children drew a colorful chalk outline of a dragon on the sidewalk.
- His career was now just a chalk outline of its former glory, a mere shadow of what it once was.
- The forensic team carefully documented everything within the chalk outline.
- The instructor used a chalk outline to demonstrate the proper positioning for the exercise.
- On the stage, a simple chalk outline indicated where the fallen actor should lie.
- A crowd gathered behind the police tape, trying to get a glimpse of the chalk outline.
- The old photograph showed a faint chalk outline from a case he worked on decades ago.