Sentence examples for a desk dictionary from inspiring English sources

After we had been talking for an hour or two, Fugedy handed me a black plastic case about the size of a desk dictionary.

American Airlines, which was in the vanguard of domestic airlines with defibrillators, began putting the devices, about the size and weight of a desk dictionary, aboard its planes in 1997.

Before that, the game's rules called for any desk dictionary to be consulted.

Take a large desk dictionary (not a pocket version).

One study found that in a set of arbitrarily chosen passages from modern fiction, an average of 13percentt of the nouns, verbs and adjectives were used in senses not found in a large desk dictionary.

Carrels come with a desk, lamp, dictionary and thesaurus, as well as an outlet for laptops.

The first definition of "dowager" in my desk dictionary is: Lady Bracknell did indeed become a lady by marrying a lord, which lord is as yet undeceased when the play's action unfolds.

"Look up" the word in the average sized desk dictionary where it may "take up" about 1/4 of a page and can "add up" to about thirty definitions.

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My desk dictionary (the American Heritage College one) defines "lynch" as "To execute without due process of law, esp. to hang, as by a mob".

Chances are your readers knew exactly what you meant and you may have broadened their horizon and piqued their curiosity a bit even without a desk-side dictionary involved.