DESK in a Sentence
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207 example sentences for DESK, such as:
1. Turn the desk end for end.
2. Rhett now had a desk in the bank.
3. Check your baggage in at the desk.
4. Don't touch the report on my desk.
5. A desk is much cheaper than a bed.
2. Rhett now had a desk in the bank.
3. Check your baggage in at the desk.
4. Don't touch the report on my desk.
5. A desk is much cheaper than a bed.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DESK
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desk
n. a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments
Classic Sentence: (158 in 11 pages)
1 Hale sat with his feet up on the stove, his back propped against a battered desk strewn with papers: the place, like the man, was warm, genial and untidy.
2 Rhett now had a desk in the bank.
3 What he did at this desk the bewildered officials of the bank did not know, but he owned too large a block of the stock for them to protest his presence there.
4 At any rate he sat at his desk all day, giving every appearance of industry, for he wished to be on equal terms with his respectable fellow townsmen who worked and worked hard.
5 She passed into the small room, blazing with the afternoon sun, and sat down in the chair before the roll-topped desk.
6 Her maid had kindled a little fire on the hearth, and it contended cheerfully with the sunlight which slanted across the moss-green carpet and caressed the curved sides of an old marquetry desk.
7 "It was simply inhuman of Pragg to go off now," Mrs. Trenor declared, as her friend seated herself at the desk.
8 She settled herself at the desk, and Mrs. Trenor accepted her resumption of the morning's task with a sigh which implied that, after all, she had proved herself unfit for higher uses.
9 Instead, she approached her desk, and lighting a taper, tied and sealed the packet; then she opened the wardrobe, drew out a despatch-box, and deposited the letters within it.
10 Lily sprang out of bed, and went straight to her desk.
11 Lily sat down beside the desk at the foot of her bed, and spreading out the cheque, read over and over the TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS written across it in a steely business hand.
12 She then wrote out a cheque for Trenor, and placing it, without an accompanying word, in an envelope inscribed with his name, laid the two letters side by side on her desk.
13 The desk was closed, but on its slanting lid lay two letters which he took up.
14 He staggered under it, steadying himself against the desk.
15 He raised the lid of the desk, and saw within it a cheque-book and a few packets of bills and letters, arranged with the orderly precision which characterized all her personal habits.
Example Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1 He laid all the stamps along the desk.
2 The empty desk suggested she had already gone home.
3 Outside, the new moon shines bright all around, but the lonely lamp on my desk is dim.
4 Looks like someone's been rummaging around in my desk.
5 Daniel finished the article and laid the newspaper down on his desk.
6 A desk is much cheaper than a bed.
7 Don't touch the report on my desk.
8 Turn the desk end for end.
9 Several times from wing to a desk at center stage he glanced out at the audience to acknowledge the applause.
10 She returned to the swivel chair behind her desk.
11 He tilted his chair backwards and put his feet up on his desk.
12 Check your baggage in at the desk.
13 He had gone to the reception desk, presumably to check out.
14 The minister warned that any civil servant not at his desk faced immediate suspension.
15 The client left his visiting card on his desk.