How to use "desk" in a sentence

The officer on the desk asked for Aron's information: full name, age, height and weight

It was on his desk

Mom was there, and they got all the things out of my desk and put them in a brown paper bag

'It's not in your desk,' Beckwith told him.

Madeleine to stare at the papers on his desk with an empty, puzzled look in his eyes.

Her eyes lit up when she noticed the books on his writing desk.

The desk clerk showed him into the police chief's office, where a tall man with a wide face and a thin, tight mouth was trying to keep warm next to a tire.

"Right," he says, and tries to smile to relax her, "what's all this about, then? The officer at the front desk says you need to speak to someone."

He walks up the corridor to the front desk and is about to shout for an officer when he sees the tall figure standing at the door of the police station

So, he moves back to his desk, and he sits down in the seat and feels defeated.

Go down to the reception desk and ask

Instead of going down to the reception desk, I ran up the stairs

A beautiful old writing-desk stood near the window

I went over and opened the desk carefully

This was Rebecca's desk

The mistress of the house would come in and find me, a stranger, sitting at her desk.

Suddenly the telephone on the desk began to ring

You will find the list on the desk beside you.'

I put down the phone and looked at the desk

I thought of Rebecca sitting at that desk

He did not sit at Rebecca's desk and touch the things she had touched

I stood them in a row on top of the desk and looked at them

A little china ornament which always stood on the desk was knocked on to the floor

Then, like a child, I hid the envelope in the desk

It stands on the desk.'

They are in an envelope in a drawer of the writing desk.'

The menu for the day lay on the desk

His desk occupied one corner; tubes of glue, miniature bottles of enamel in every color, and a variety of model-crafting tools stood in soldierly ranks on one half of the desk, and the other half was bare, waiting for him to begin work

The tubes of glue, miniature bottles of enamel, and model-crafting tools that had stood on his desk were now on the floor with everything else

They think they're being overcharged, and they argue with the desk clerks

The office was shadowy, and she was at her desk in a pool of soft light.

Alone now on the third floor, she sat in the pool of amber light at her desk, surrounded by shadows, yawning

She went to Angela's desk, sat in her chair, and switched on the computer

In the locked center drawer of the desk was a book with the code numbers that permitted access to the sensitive information stored not on diskette but only in the central memory

She hurried around the desk, banging her hip against one corner, heading for the wall socket as the printer hummed with the production of more hateful words.

She started around Angela's desk, wanting nothing more at the moment than to get off her rubbery legs and onto a chair - and suddenly the door to the hall opened, and she cried out in alarm.

I wondered if you might still be at your desk

He picked up his brandy snifter from the low table in front of the sofa, and he sat on the edge of her desk

She paced between the desk and the drapery-covered windows

Alexander went to the huge maple desk and sat behind it, in Kennebeck's wing chair.

A neatly folded pair of twenty-dollar bills, placed without ostentation into the hand of a front-desk clerk, was almost certain to result in the timely discovery of a forgotten vacancy.

After the bellman left, Elliot engaged the deadbolt, hooked the security chain in place, and firmly wedged the heavy straight-backed desk chair under the knob.

Then she went to the desk, opened the center drawer, and withdrew a folder of hotel stationery

Alexander took a Valium out of a tin that he carried in his jacket pocket, and he washed it down with a swallow of hot coffee, which he poured from the silver pot on his desk

With glossy photographs of Christina Evans and Elliot Stryker, George Alexander's men circulated through the hotels in downtown Reno, talking with desk clerks, bellmen, and other employees

Kurt Hensen was standing in front of Alexander's desk, picking through the junk that had been brought over from the hotel

He crashed into a desk, sending a pile of white and pink papers onto the floor, and then he fell on top of the mess that he had made.

'This morning, on your desk, Uncle Francois

I ran upstairs, threw Helene's envelope onto my desk and made another careful search of the room

I then disconnected the telephone - I always did this now at night - and turned out all the lights except the lamp on my desk.

Walk over to my desk and put down the bowl of milk Then go into the other room where the receiving booth is

Without looking round, I carried the bowl of milk to his desk.

I put the bowl on his desk, then walked into the next room where all the lights were on.

Alter a moment of hesitation, he knocked once on his desk.

His left hand knocked the desk twice.

His head was still covered, and on his desk lay a typewritten sheet of paper, which I picked up

But he knocked a 'no' on his desk and pointed to the door.

I took the food down to the laboratory and, after he let me in, put it on his desk

Colonel Protheroe was lying across my desk

Then he looked at the things on the desk and examined the blood

He was still looking at the desk

'Protheroe was sitting at the desk

'Did you see a note on the desk?'

Then he told me to go and sit at the desk

'He was round the corner at the desk

But later she had realized that if her husband had been sitting at the desk, she would not have seen him.

I went into my study and walked over to the desk

By the desk was a small object

'Underneath the desk.'

'So I put the thing under the desk

'Because he was writing at the desk,' I said.

So, why was he sitting at the desk then?'

The second possibility is, of course, that he was sitting at the desk writing a note, but it must have been a different note from the one that was found

I had just sat down at my desk again, when the doorbell rang

The poor colonel was sitting at the desk writing his letter to you

But when she had found nothing, she had dropped Anne's earring by the desk.

I turned my desk chair to the window and stared out at the country and, in particular, at the three enormous black Things that were moving around the common

In one corner there was a desk, and at that desk there was a desk, and at that desk there appeared to be a little girl.

He folded the document and placed it on the desk with his hand resting on the folded part

Count Fosco put his hand into the desk and took out a gun