Sentence examples for computer on the desk from inspiring English sources

Except for a small computer on the desk, one could easily imagine that Hubble, in his tweed jacket, had just stepped away, perhaps to replenish the tobacco in his briar pipe.

Fitch placed his computer on the desk and launched a program that he had spent several weeks writing in preparation for this trip.

Players enter a hotel room, as immaculate and untouched as you would expect, except for a computer on the desk showing an interactive story about the room.

The boy's room had bare walls, a twin bed with a Dallas Cowboys quilt, a dresser, and a giant computer on the desk.

Most service providers offer a tool so their customers can test the performance inside the network, the last link in the long chain from a computer on the desk to a service provider's distant server.

There's not even a computer on the desk (although there's a hard drive, gargantuan by today's standards, down on the floor)—just a few pieces of paper, a mouse pad, a bottle of water, and two books.

I often sit at the fancy desk to pay bills, and I use the computer on that desk for booking tickets or doing searches.

"I need to go to the gym tonight, I got another hour's worth of e-mail and I have to pack for my two-week European journey," he says, checking the clock on one of two computer screens on the desk.

With cold and flu season looming, you might start wondering if that innocent-looking computer mouse on the desk is actually a petri dish with buttons — especially if it is connected to a public computer at a school or library.

In the Planned Parenthood offices here, a demonstration of the abortion procedure by teleconferencing reveals a process that feels not unlike any ordinary doctor's office visit, but for the doctor appearing on a computer screen on the desk and the unexpected sight of a cash register drawer eventually flinging open with the needed drugs.

The back of the device is a dense cluster of ports, and softly shifting the computer around on the desk was enough to trigger the lit-up port guides that will help you guide cords into their proper receptacles.