What is "chalklike"

Usage examples of "chalklike".

The coastal hills piled above him, their heights and seaward reaches still skirted in chalklike dust.

Milky-white food slurry exploded in all directions, showering the recovery team with thick white fluid that dried quickly to a chalklike consistency.

Dwyrin flinched away from the crumbly chalklike skin, the pale eyes, almost the color of lead.

Kadann began the proceedings by picking up a blue chalklike ball from a collection of colored balls at his side.

An opening from eight to as much as twenty feet long by eight high and four to six feet deep was cut into the chalklike rock of the cliff, in the back of this large opening, which formed what might be described as the front veranda of the home, was an opening about three feet wide and six feet high, evidently forming the doorway to the interior apartment or apartments.

As Tarzan neared the city his interest became centered upon the architecture of the outlying buildings which were hewn from the chalklike limestone of what had once been a group of low hills, similar to the many grass-covered hillocks that dotted the valley in every direction.

He sat beside her and held her hand, gazing upon her face, so lifelike despite its chalklike pallor.

The smoke pall hung over the distant city, but the air was brighter, reflected off the white ash that covered the chalklike bed of the river.

Quilter pointed to the lake, at the white chalklike dunes, the myriads of fine bones washed to the surface by the wind speckling in the sunlight.

When he stood up Ransom saw Catherine Austen waving to him from a dune in the distance, hands on hips, her leather boots white with the chalklike sand of the desert.