Sentence examples for desk closes from inspiring English sources

3. The Davis Desk closes up to conceal drawers and cubbyholes.

I finally made it to the airport only to discover the Emirates desk closes one hour before takeoff.

When nine o'clock rolls around, the man behind the desk closes the book he's reading (is it the dictionary?) and gets down to work.

The check-in desk closes as I arrive, the staff shake their heads and I am forced to pay my way onto a later flight.

The service, however, was the real appeal: Mr. Swain darted around the room – as fast as a man with a recent knee replacement can dart – and made sure everyone was doing O.K. Jonathan Morgan, Airbnb host and blind-dater I've rushed to reach my lodging destination plenty of times before – because the reception desk closes before a certain hour, or because I'm dead tired and can't wait to rest.

Nor is the sales desk closed.

He pointed to a stack of papers on his desk, closing documents for the Trump International Hotel & Tower.

Every day after school until he was twelve he would go and sit at Whyte's Insurance, at his own special desk close to Josie's, and do his homework, or make drawings, or read comic books.

There are cynics who say that the only real measure of power is proximity, which is why there is always a scramble to get the desk closest to the Oval Office.

Automatic sliding glass doors leading to the main library and metal lattice gates that slide out of the walls by the circulation desk close these spaces off from the open lobby and rooms on the floor below.

Even at the end of the twentieth century, credentialled readers who had wangled entrée to the "Private Case" (a collection of pornography donated by the Victorian erotomane Henry Spencer Ashbee, the author of "My Secret Life") were, Moulton notes, obliged to consult its contents at a special desk close to the librarians, presumably with both hands in view.