I could feel the stuff in the canal in my tongue, like a piece of chalk or stick yet still soft and flexible.

A chalkboard was a slab of hard, dark slate onto which you would scribble with little cylinders of soft, white chalk.

Rose pulled a wayward strand of hair behind her ear and took a tighter grip on her piece of soft chalk.

With his stone chisel and mallet he commenced to chip away at the soft chalk; then, after a moment, he turned to her again.

Tunnels were dug into the soft chalk so that Canadian soldiers could move as close to the German lines as possible before the actual assault.

This had been cut straight through the soft chalk of the cliff, and ran for about a mile, linking together three churches with the monastery.

Pastels, soft, colorful chalks, were perfected by the French in the 19th century.

The starfish is preserved in soft white chalk, which fills in the interior of the animal.

They've got lumps of very soft chalk in the ends.

That's the local name for the soft chalk they mined here from the Middle Ages onwards.