Sentence examples for makeshift desks from inspiring English sources

Assistants sat at makeshift desks.

Inside, rooms are dark and empty except for a few broken chairs and makeshift desks.

It is spending $14m of emergency money from the World Bank to build schools, construct makeshift desks and buy basic supplies.

Inside the office, his colleagues were working on makeshift desks and kitchen tables: the furniture was looted or destroyed during the protests.

Political wounds will be on display as newly elected members arrive to pick out office space and drapery colors, while just-defeated ones are relegated to makeshift desks, often in the basements of Capitol Hill.

Other studied and typed in an open-air classroom at makeshift desks with power sockets set up on the highway, while others gathered to hear and join stump speeches on democracy.

The old marble-topped dining-room buffet became her makeshift desk; she took to cooking meals over a hot plate.

Charko sits at a long makeshift desk in a loft, checking charts and satellite images on two laptops.

In the summer, he could set up a makeshift desk — probably just the card table — and not have to worry that rain would ruin his paperwork.

There is a mattress on the floor, a makeshift desk, a kitchen in chaos, no television set and a William Butler Yeats poem pinned on the wall.

"Three blasts of the horn, that means get out," says Mike Sturdevant, the contractor at the entry checkpoint whose makeshift desk sits on the crumbling, abandoned PATH platform.