Examples of “caulk” in a Sentence

noun A flexible waterproof filler squeezed into joints and gaps — around baths, sinks, window frames and skirting boards — to seal them against water and drafts.

• Run a bead of caulk along the edge where the bath meets the tiles.
• The old caulk had gone moldy and needed scraping out.

verb To seal a joint or gap by filling it with such a compound.

• Caulk around the window frame before you paint it.
• He spent the afternoon caulking the shower tray.

verb In traditional boatbuilding, to drive fibrous material such as oakum into the seams between a wooden hull's planks to make it watertight.

• The shipwrights caulked the seams with oakum and hot pitch.