The phrase "abandoned desk" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a desk that has been left behind or is no longer in use, often implying neglect or disuse.
Example: "The office was filled with an eerie silence, and in the corner stood an abandoned desk, covered in dust and forgotten papers."
Alternatives: "neglected desk" or "forsaken desk".
Around her are abandoned desks and burnt out classrooms destroyed when Boko Haram militants stormed the Chibok government girls secondary school a month ago, loading the girls into lorries and driving them away.
Now distilling is proliferating again, not just with farmers like Mr. Grout adding value to their crops, but with disgruntled professionals abandoning desk duty to make gin and whiskey, craft brewers and small winemakers branching out into spirits, and young urbanites setting up stills the way their peers have set up apiaries and charcuteries.
The businessman who abandoned his desk to hand water bottles to refugees as they walked across Hungary.
For any first-time visitor, Cook County's Domestic Violence Courthouse — with its unmarked hallways and frequently abandoned information desk — presents a navigational challenge.
3 p.m. 1. WATCH THE WORLD GO BY On weekdays, Paseo Bravo (Calle 11 Sur between Avenida Reforma and Avenida 11 Poniente, Centro), a long, narrow plaza with a Talavera-tiled church at one end and a cantina at the other, is crowded with food carts, teenagers and office workers who have abandoned their desks.
On weekdays, Paseo Bravo (Calle 11 Sur between Avenida Reforma and Avenida 11 Poniente, Centro), a long, narrow plaza with a Talavera-tiled church at one end and a cantina at the other, is crowded with food carts, teenagers and office workers who have abandoned their desks.
Several people were reportedly injured during another chaotic scene in Jinja, when nurses "abandoned their desks and threw away their pens and writing pads", while patients "scampered away" from the suspect individual.
While some are decades away from abandoning their desk jobs and becoming financially independent, others are shockingly close to hanging their work hat for the last time.
After an all-night tour of bars and after-hours places, we found ourselves by an abandoned artist's desk that was resting on a steel-wheeled wooden pallet waiting to be taken away by the garbageman.
In the basement of the State House, librarians resumed their posts at an information desk abandoned during the off-season.
