Word Finder - desk

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A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.

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A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.

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A department of a newspaper tasked with covering a particular geographical region or aspect of the news.

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city desk

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To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.

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To equip with a desk or desks.

She folded her arms on the desk.

She made her way to the notebook near the desk phone.

I rushed to the front desk in a panic with Howie on my heels like a following puppy!

The pile of mail she left on her desk was still there, the living room neat and quiet.

She crossed to the small desk and rustled around for the complimentary paper and pen.

Alex set his cup on the desk.

As she watched, the creature rose and hobbled from the desk to a nearby shelf.

I sat at the desk as he reclined on the bed, more suitable to his five foot seven frame.

Howie was at his desk before any of us on Monday morning.

He thanked her and she promised to keep the file on her desk, just in case.

Weller rose, picking up a form from his desk.

He squatted beside her, wrapping her arm in a clean white towel before he rose and strode to the desk along the far wall.

Her move toward the fire was reflected in a small mirror behind the desk in front of which he stood.

He perched on the edge of the desk, the fire casting shadows across his perfect, chiseled features.

At last he moved around the desk to a dark corner and withdrew a crystal carafe from a locked cabinet.

It was hunched over a book large enough to cover half the black stone desk at which it sat.

Wynn paced to the desk in one corner, pushing the papers around with frustration.

He nodded as she plopped down at the desk and began to sketch on the paper, explaining as she drew.

Because there's nobody standing in front of this desk screaming at me to do something, that's why.

The next morning she brought him a larger tablet and a padded lap desk.

He stepped back from the desk, as if fearing the compass would claim his soul right there.

She looked around the area where his desk had been and spotted a perfume bottle similar to the one he'd give her before.

She sketched the planet next and fell asleep at her desk.

She lifted her head from her desk and blinked, the first fingers of dawn rendering the light of the room grainy and grey.

He unfolded it only when in the safety of his locked room and sat it down on the desk to stare at it.

An office desk is an important tool for any business.

She entered the room and sat in the leather-upholstered chair beside the desk.

They both left the lounge and started down the hall toward the desk.

The basement area was considerably larger than Quinn's small cabin lab-room, noticeably so with fewer plants and absent the desk.

Naw. I'm a short timer with mostly circulars on my desk.

I glanced up from me desk.

He waved me to a side chair, closed the door and plopped down in his desk chair.

He set them down on the chair near the desk.

He crossed his arms to display roped forearms and sat on the edge of his desk.

Damian asked, crossing to his desk.

Han had laid out a few maps on the table near his desk.

She sat across from him at the large desk.

Dean dropped it on his desk.

The clerk didn't raise her eyes from her desk.

Carmen smiled a warm thank you to Saundra and she winked as she turned to walk back to her desk.

He looked away finally and returned to his desk.

Rhyn rolled his eyes and got up, grabbing an orange off the fruit basket on Sasha's desk.

He'd forgotten what color real fire was, but he found himself thinking it was orange, like the fruit in the basket on Sasha's desk.

Just need your signature, he said, pulling a file out of one of the drawers in his desk.

Here's your cut-- two thousand and forty three dollars, Kevin said, and counted out the money on the desk.

Cynthia crossed to the desk and returned with a hand full of cards and envelopes.

He swept his hand to motion her through the doorway, then walked to the desk and the only chair in the room.

Taking a sip of the wine colored liquid, he sat the glass in a coaster on the smooth mahogany desk and dropped the letter beside it.

He tossed the picture on the desk and leaned forward to pick up the letter.

Alex replaced the last desk drawer and closed the box of personal items on his desk.