Sentence examples for desk holding from inspiring English sources

An early 19th-century banker seated by his desk, holding a business letter.

I went straight to Tim's desk, holding the note as if it were some kind of archaeological find.

Obama did not take questions from reporters but was later seen sitting at his desk, holding his head in his hands.

She raised a blizzard of paperwork from her desk, holding that "a written note is far less liable to misinterpretation than the spoken word".

Why we like him: For Chinese Walls (2006), an oddly disconcerting scene in which a man is seated behind a hotel desk holding a deflated balloon.

He grabs his "personal totems" from a messy pile on his desk, holding them in outstretched hands: a brass slug ("They are quite beautiful despite how people despise the poor creatures") and a frog ("I leap").

His tidy desk held a glass gavel.

A cart by his desk holds an eight-volume file, all representing one veteran.

A shelf above her desk holds an altar of family snapshots, with many more black faces than white.

The library discovered that the desk held three pairs of glasses, two tortoiseshell and one wire-framed.

A small red-and-white cardboard box on Joe Torre's desk held the most prized keepsake of the Yankees' season.