How to Use desk in a Sentence

desk

noun

• We will ask for directions to the restaurant at the front desk.
• We went to the reception desk to check into our room.
• Brooklynn took a breath, smiled and rose from the desk.
  — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
• The clip shows the countdown to the broadcast and Moshiri at the anchor desk.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2023
• The desk's height is adjustable to grow with your child up to around 6 years old.
  — Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 16 Oct. 2023
• When the case crossed John Feinblatt’s desk, his heart sank.
  — Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
• The coin struck a desk before dropping to the carpet and rolling a few feet on its side across the room.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• The Branch Duo is a cute, tiny little desk that's great for small spaces.
  — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2023
• The front-facing design is fine for a desk or a nightstand.
  — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
• And then pretty much go to work at my desk at nine-thirty or ten.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
• Capitol could send gun-control bills to Youngkin’s desk The bills still have a ways to go.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
• If at all possible, leave your desk and eat lunch in the breakroom.
  — Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 9 Feb. 2024
• In a corner of the living room, a Room & Board table morphs from a desk by day to a drinks table by night.
  — Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor, 18 Aug. 2023
• Mary then pans the camera up to record the classroom, where the teacher is standing in between rows of desks.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• House Bill 1199 will now head to Gov. Eric Holcomb's desk.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2024
• Some are just scrounged out closets and out of parents' desk drawers.
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• Keep a bottle stashed at your desk for a quick mid-day refresh that leaves you with a dewy finish.
  — Sarah Maberry, Seventeen, 11 July 2023
• Rimawi’s desk occupies the back corner of the room, and a ring of chairs encircles it.
  — Ismail Ibrahim, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2023
• Put them up on your shelves, set them out on your desk, or add them to any other space that could use a little fun and funk.
  — Savannah Smith, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
• That's why when bills come to Evers' desk to become law, vetoes are often the norm.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2023
• The next year, Grassley’s wife, Barbara, approached Kathy’s desk.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• Laslo took a shot of moonshine from the bottle in his desk and left with another reporter at 3:54 p.m.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• When disaster threatens, her new friends — a pile of rocks, a rabbit, a cactus, the motel desk clerks— save the day.
  — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
• At the foot of the bed is a counter and shelf space that serves both as a room divider and as another work desk for Sonny while sitting in bed.
  — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 14 June 2023
• Spend a few minutes clearing off your desk at the end of your work day to give yourself a fresh start every morning.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 13 Nov. 2023
• The global commodities chief saw revenues for his desk surge to over $3 billion last year, thanks to high oil and gas prices.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2023
• Earnings-day beats and busts are attracting traders back to their desks this summer.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2023
• Markets in the third quarter were volatile, leading to mixed results for trading desks at big banks.
  — WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
• Near a desk by the balcony were two kafigeledjo figures from the Senufo people of West Africa.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
• For those old enough to remember, the performance was a throwback nod to the band’s first visit to the Tonight Show in 1996, when Jay Leno was behind the desk.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024