Desk example sentences

This feature is reflected, for instance, in the distance between houses in a colony, the location of rooms within a home, or in the arrangement of work desks and seats in an office for formal and informal gatherings.I sat at my desk in our bedroom with a sheet of paper before me.Usually, when school began, there was a great bustle, which could be heard out in the street, the opening and closing of desks, lessons repeated in unison, very loud, with our hands over our ears to understand better, and the teacher s great ruler rapping on the table.I spotted it in a junk shop in Bridport, a roll-top desk.The postmaster — a fat, amiable fellow — also broke out laughing, but almost immediately he turned serious and, tapping the letter on his desk, commented, “What faith! I wish I had the faith of the man who wrote this letter.) Seeing me sitting at my desk tearing up newspapers day in and day out, most people thought I was doing next to nothing.But now it was all so still! I had counted on the commotion to get to my desk without being seen; but, of course, that day everything had to be as quiet as Sunday morning.What would I not have given to be able to say that dreadful rule for the participle all through, very loud and clear, and without one mistake? But I got mixed up on the first words and stood there, holding on to my desk, my heart beating, and not daring to look up.Only the desks and benches had been worn smooth; the walnut-trees in the garden were taller, and the hopvine that he had planted himself twined about the windows to the roof.My particular specialty now is returning to hotel desks two or three times a day and asking what my room number is.They looked like little flags floating everywhere in the school-room, hung from the rod at the top of our desks.Both fire and water had clearly taken their toll on this desk.I explained about the desk, about how I had found it, but I don't think she was listening.