Sentence examples for desk stood from inspiring English sources

Behind Mayer's desk stood an American flag and a marble statue of the M-G-M lion.

Behind Cohen's desk stood a bin of large rolled maps of New York's neighborhoods, with handwritten tags attached: "Significant Concentrations of Pakistanis," "Significant Concentrations of Palestinians".

There, for a final time at his Senate desk, stood Ted Stevens: longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history, shepherd of Alaska statehood, convicted felon.

Behind a metal desk stood a young doctor in a clean white apron and blue hijab, two sharp eyes peering from above a surgical mask.

Behind a desk stood an old-fashioned swivel chair with a maroon leather seat, and in it sat a man with an outsize gloved left hand".

The impact of this statement was not lessened by the fact that in order to make it the old warrior had clambered on to his desk, stood to his full height and then violently clasped his hands together.

A guard from the front desk stands beside him.

The shutters are half-closed, and a school desk stands rotting in the courtyard.

In the F.B.I.'s expansive offices in Lower Manhattan, a black-and-white banner on Special Agent Kevin P. Coughlin's desk stands out amid the rows of cubicles.

It's an idea that makes perfect sense to any modern cubicle dweller whose overflowing desk stands as a rebuke to the utopian promise of the paperless office.

Near Ms. Bishai's desk stands a powder-blue chest from Brazil, painted with angels and topped with a teddy bear.