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Recent Examples of chalky
BEMt is oil-soluble, giving it a smooth, non-chalky texture on the skin.
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Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
How To Remove Hard-Water Stains Shower doors often develop chalky, white, hard-water stains from droplets of water drying on the glass.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2025
Miner said that without additives, the taste can be slightly chalky.
—Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 10 Sep. 2025
Portraying the ghost of Hamlet’s father at the play’s debut, his face and body covered in chalky white paint, his Shakespeare steps through the looking glass and becomes his own tragic player, strutting and fretting his hour upon the stage.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
But a lot of the time matte lipstick would get dry and chalky.
—Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The report notes how chalky and powdered looks give an aged appearance to cotton knits and wovens through different wash-down techniques and finishing effects.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 6 Aug. 2025
Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
How To Remove Hard-Water Stains Shower doors often develop chalky, white, hard-water stains from droplets of water drying on the glass.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2025
Miner said that without additives, the taste can be slightly chalky.
—Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 10 Sep. 2025
Portraying the ghost of Hamlet’s father at the play’s debut, his face and body covered in chalky white paint, his Shakespeare steps through the looking glass and becomes his own tragic player, strutting and fretting his hour upon the stage.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
But a lot of the time matte lipstick would get dry and chalky.
—Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The report notes how chalky and powdered looks give an aged appearance to cotton knits and wovens through different wash-down techniques and finishing effects.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chalky
Adjective
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That thoughtfulness is why the foundation blends seamlessly without ever leaving behind an ashy cast, a struggle many of us know all too well.—
Essence,
Essence,
7 Oct. 2025
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When the hydrants ran dry, the loss of pressure caused ashy water to backflow into the lines.—
Dana Goodyear,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Small, whitish or tan spots, which reach soup-can size, appear on the turf.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
6 Oct. 2025
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Tonsil stones, or tonsilloliths, are small, firm, whitish deposits that may form in the deep pockets and corners of your tonsils.—
Mark Gurarie,
Health,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Its skin looked yellow, and sometimes ashen.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
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Given shorter travel times, a greater number of people would be able to experience its otherworldly ashen plains.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
10 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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In the reunion episode, which aired Wednesday, Stause alleged that Davis had made disparaging comments about the use of gender-neutral pronouns and defended the practice of white people singing along to the N-word in music.—
Samantha Allen,
Them.,
7 Nov. 2025
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True Ipomea batatas has bright orange flesh (although modern varieties have much more intense colors than older forms), occasionally white and rarely purple.—
Paul Cappiello,
Louisville Courier Journal,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The heiress and entrepreneur has a princess moment in a romantic pale pink gown with floral appliqués and a matching cape.—
Brittany Talarico,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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These figures, while shocking, unfortunately pale in comparison to those from the recent war, now widely recognized as a genocide.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The 46-year-old migrant stood on the sandy beach in flip-flops one morning watching a boat packed with other migrants leave without him.—
Daniel Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Firefighters who rescued a dog that tumbled 40 feet off a sandy cliff over the ocean onto a ledge received plenty of rewards, California officials and news outlets reported.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Whereas the play only obliquely references the character’s successful new novel, this version presents Eileen’s manuscript — co-written with her mousy lover Thea (Imogen Potts), a former schoolmate of Hedda’s — as a revelatory treatise on the future of human sexuality.—
Abby Monteil,
Them.,
28 Oct. 2025
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Generously, Thompson’s performance leaves room for two more, the first being Poots’ low-key but impressive Thea, a mousy woman who arrives wet and bedraggled, causing Hedda to dress her in her own clothes (a gesture that has more than one meaning for Hedda, who’s still in love with Eileen).—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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By the years of the Great Depression, the clown came to represent the faded glory of the circus and reflected the weariness felt by so many Americans in crisis.—
Time,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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Scherzinger’s only familiarity with the material was Billy Wilder’s 1950 film, which starred Gloria Swanson as a faded beauty of the silent era hell-bent on a return to relevance.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Chalky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chalky. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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