Sentence examples for on our laps from inspiring English sources

It shrank the mainframe computer to fit on the desktop, shrank it again to fit on our laps and again to fit into our shirt pockets.

Night after night, we sit eating our meals for one on our laps watching the telly, where cookery programmes dominate, none of which acknowledges the rise of the single diner.

The first step we do is to obtain the oldest, daggiest leather ball we have and then start to softly hit the front face (blade) with the ball in one hand and the bat on our laps.

Cooking was something my mum and I always enjoyed, and having to cook in a kitchen that isn't ours to then go and eat on our laps in our bed really takes the fun out of it.

Mike Abbott London W4   Eating a meal for one should be done at a table, not "on our laps watching the telly" (Janet Street-Porter).

By contrast the computational elements, bits, of the classical computers under our desks and on our laps represent either a zero or a one.

"When we were in the van, he was laying his head on our lap," she said of the ride home.

We were having this conversation in our separate living-room chairs, each with a cat on our lap, our arms folded over our chests, not looking at each other and instead focusing on the television.

In our favorite taproom, we are embarrassed by the fact that the lovely unknown lady beside us is usually obliged by the crowded nature of the place to sit half on our lap.

Those of us for whom books are a faith in themselves — who find the notion that pixels, however ordered, could be any kind of substitute for the experience of reading in a chair with the strange thing spread open on our lap — will love this book.

I try to leave the office between 5pm and 5 30pm and arrive home by about 7pm, in time to prepare dinner and catch up with my husband, each of us with a much loved and pampered cat – either Gollum or Pixie – cuddled up on our lap.