Sentence Examples

1. The chalky white limestone contrasted against the granite foundations as window arches and doorways, all intricately and painstakingly carved with curling forms of birds and leaves and other sweeping abstract designs.
2. My shoulders shook as drops pockmarked the chalky soil at my feet grew pockmarked my sobs silenced the last birds of the morning.
3. Taking a breath so deep I could feel the oxygen spreading to every cell, I approached the cot where he lay, his narrow face chalky and pained.
4. Then came a low rumbling far, far below the ground, and through the window I saw a cloud of chalky dust pouring out of the shaft of the stairway.
5. His skin glowed chalky white and his hair gray and thick.
6. I shoved the table off, sputtered, rolled painfully to my knees, spitting chalky wallboard and looking like the ghost of a washed-up detective.