Chalky Sentence Examples

Other paints are so matt that the finish looks almost chalky.

Therein two eggs, with white, chalky shells, are commonly laid.

The first signs of damage are chalky white spots or lines across the teeth.

Xantham gum, along with a combination of other gluten-free flours, help avoid the gritty texture and chalky taste often associated with gluten-free yeast breads.

Until just a few years ago, many gluten-free cakes were tasteless, chalky or lacked the texture of the original versions, but now any regular cake recipe can be adapted to be delicious and satisfying.

It's also important to remove the chalk from the erasers, which can be accomplished by clapping two of them together, chalky side in, or by hitting them against the wall or on the ground.

The rods are reputed to be most durable when from the driest ground, and to be especially good where the bottom is chalky.

However in very chalky soils, there may be problems associated with the excess lime locking up the nutrients.

Casein has a deep matt and very slightly chalky finish and is best suited where the background is dry and there's low condensation.

After a further period the paint will become chalky as the pigment begins to be released.

We know little or nothing at present of the upland plants, or of those of dry or chalky soils.

The soil type is chalky loam overlying clay, mostly Grade Ill with some Grade Il.

It was originally built for grinding cement clinker the cement made from the chalky mud dredged from the river bed.

The doctor also may find it helpful to examine chalky, sodium urate deposits (tophi) around joints to diagnose gout.

Wherever the soil is dry and chalky the wild parsnip may be found.

Succeeds best perhaps in chalky loam or soil containing much mortar rubble or the like.

Honesty is charming in a semi-wild state on chalky or dry banks and in open bushy places.

It should be grown in sunny nooks in the rock garden, or on sheltered banks or borders, but always in light, warm, or chalky soils.

They will not thrive in stiff or chalky soils.

Tree Paeonies are not particular as to soil or position, they grow and flower well in chalky soils, or those of good sandy loam.

They grow fairly well even in shade, but fruit less freely, and only fail in hot, sandy, or chalky soils, or where there is much lime.

Rose Campion (Agrostemma) - A. coronaria is a beautiful old flower, of the Pink family, hardy and free, most at home in chalky and dry soils.

Spanish Silver Fir (Abies Pinsapo) - A large Fir, with bright green prickly foliage, thriving in almost any soil and in chalky districts.

It does well in pots, revels in chalky loams, and even in an unfavourable position in clay.

Suited for chalky banks or the rock garden, and some are suited for borders, while others may be naturalised in the grass in warm soil.

These shrubs succeed best in a deep light loam, and will thrive on chalky soils much better than many other evergreen shrubs.

It is valuable for such positions, particularly on hot gravelly or chalky soils.

We may therefore enjoy it without giving it positions suited for more delicate plants, or taking any trouble about it, but it is more vigorous on chalky or warm soils, and dwindles on some cold soils.

Though many regions around the world, including many in the U.S., produce fine sparkling wines, only wine made from grapes grown in the chalky hills of the Champagne region can rightly be called "Champagne."

As the material used to make rubber roofs for travel trailers and motor homes ages, the surface will begin to take on a chalky look and feel.

Because this liquid has usually been barium, a metallic, chalky substance, the upper GI series is sometimes called a barium swallow.

Barium is a chalky substance that enhances the visualization of the gastrointestinal tract on x ray.

For the plum on loamy soils the plum, and on chalky and light soils the almond, are the most desirable stocks, and for the cherry on loamy or light rich soils the wild cherry, and on chalk the " mahaleb " stock.

The estuary, which is one of the best roadsteads in Europe and could accommodate the combined fleets of Europe, is a deep and thoroughly sheltered indentation among chalky cliffs, running east and west for nearly 4 m., with a width of threequarters of a mile, narrowing to 930 yds.

A small amount of beeswax is sometimes used to give a chalky impasto reminiscent of fresco painting.

Again, it doesn't have to be Dior or even Lancome, but chalky shadows won't do anything but frustrate you (and look bad no matter what kind of skills you develop!).

Everything from the musty, almost moldy aroma to the slightly chalky texture always convinced me to keep my distance from them.

African American women sometimes have trouble finding a foundation that matches their skin tone because many popular foundations have yellow undertones, which can look chalky and ashy on women of color.

The Cretaceous system includes the Waipara series, a belt of chalky limestones with some phosphate beds at Clarendon in eastern Otago.

From a careful series of experiments made in the Horticultural Society's Garden at Chiswick, it was found that where the soil is loamy, or light and slightly enriched with decayed vegetable matter, the apple succeeds best on the doucin stock, and the pear on the quince; and where it is chalky it is preferable to graft the apple on the crab, and the pear on the wild pear.

On the top is a shallow cup for the reception of the one or two eggs, which have a bluish-white shell with chalky incrustation.

The colour of mahogany is reddish brown, and in the Cuban wood the pores are often filled with a white chalky substance which is usually absent in the Honduras variety; the latter, however, may be obtained in larger sizes, and is straighter in the grain and easier to work.

The Southdown, from the short close pastures upon the chalky soils of the South Downs in Sussex, was formerly known as the Sussex Down.

The trees seemed to have flourished on neighbouring chalky heights.

On the island of Andros there is an extremely fine white marl almost resembling a chalky ooze.

It includes chalky limestones, siliceous earths, red clay, and, at the top, a layer of mudstone composed mainly of volcanic dust.

Within a recent geological period, central Aragon was undoubtedly submerged by the sea, and the parched chalky soil remains saturated with salt, while many of the smaller streams run brackish.

The soil varies greatly according to the district, being in some cases a rich loam, in others a chalky marl, and elsewhere showing a coating of peat.

The town lies low, flanked by two chalky eminences, called East and West Hills.

Two chalky white or greenish eggs are laid.