Examples of desk

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Comics, newspapers and nudes under half-lifted desks melt into elusive textbooks.
Without references, letters may do the rounds of various desks before the correct destination is found.
Millions of people work away from their desks, so the situations where such a computer may be appropriate are widespread.
She is teaching a lesson in elementary biology, and the students are drawing catkins, which litter the desks.
Their desks are individuated, and are separated from one another by low barriers.
All desks had been tidied, and leads without client profile cards attached were locked or hidden away.
The desks of administrators can be very busy places.
The layout of the office clearly reflected the office hierarchy: directors' and general managers' desks lined up by the window facing inwards.
There are few desks, and the only teaching aid generally available is a blackboard; books are either not available or too few.
On the first day of school we found ourselves behind small wooden desks looking at the teacher who acted on behalf of your assimilation policies.
Extended waiting times increase patient frustration - all of which has to be dealt with by the staff behind the reception desks.
Introduces the advantages of the transistor, first synthesisers, complex mixing desks, source intermodulation, electronic reverberation and other processing systems.
In contrast, the development of larger mixing desks and improved digital effects has had little musical effect.
In the movement sessions we extended the use of the acting cycle from abstract movement to moving the desks and chairs.
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