chalk up

verb

chalked up; chalking up; chalks up

Synonyms of chalk up next

transitive verb

: ascribe, credit

chalked up his failures to inexperience

: attain, achieve

chalk up another victory

Examples of chalk up in a Sentence

let's chalk up her weird behavior to simple nervousness chalked up a record in singles tennis that is likely to stand for a long time

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SpaceX The Super Heavy first stage chalked up a successful mission, boosting the Starship upper stage out of the lower atmosphere, then flipping around and flying back to seaside firing stand where it was plucked out of mid air by giant mechanical arms on the launch tower. —

William Harwood, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2025 A lot of his struggles can be chalked up to a career-low shooting percentage (6.52 percent at five-on-five) that should regress closer to average (which, in Kreider’s case, is around 11.3 percent). —

Shayna Goldman, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025 Part of that melancholy can surely be chalked up to some run-of-the-mill, parasocial attachment. —

Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2025 Across the internet, people have shared viral stories about medical gaslighting, describing the ways that doctors chalked up their symptoms of appendicitis, heart conditions, or even cancer to anxiety. —

Angela Haupt, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for chalk up