The word "chalky" is correct in written English.
It is typically used to describe a texture or taste that resembles chalk, often in reference to food or substances.
Example: "The cake had a chalky texture that made it difficult to enjoy."
Alternatives: "Powdery" or "Dry".
And in 2015: "Hey, maybe the new Cadbury's Creme Eggs won't basically taste like awful pellets of chalky vomit".
If so, they are not lying around in plain view in the border area; but much in evidence are rocks of chalky TNT used in the production of Gaza's home-made rockets.However, the tunnels are used for much more than munitions.
He drank the output and thought it rather better than chalky product that spluttered from London taps.Earlier this week, the mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, did the same at one of his city's water-recycling centres.
Offered a glass of the finished product, your correspondent thought it tasted a good deal better than the chalky liquid that spluttered from London taps (see "From toilet to tap", September 26th 2008).
Foraminifera are a ubiquitous group of single-celled sea creatures that leave chalky skeletons behind when they die.
Sometimes the crystals form chalky splinters, or tophi, which may break through the skin.
One example concerns Borjomi, a chalky, pungent Georgian water.
It prefers settling on hard, chalky surfaces.
Poor soils are the rule on the Coastal Plain, though rare exceptions have formed some of America's most famous agricultural regions for example, the citrus country of central Florida's limestone uplands and the Cotton Belt of the Old South, once centred on the alluvial plain of the Mississippi and belts of chalky black soils of eastern Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi.
The world's outstanding application at the Auber Station of the Métro Express beneath the Place de L'Opéra traffic centre of Paris has a large chamber 130 feet wide by 60 feet high by 750 feet long in chalky marl below an existing subway, at a depth of 120 feet, about 60 feet below water table.
