Sentence examples for take a desk from inspiring English sources

He had to stop working patrols and take a desk job, a source of depression, he said.

After a disastrous trip to Thailand last year in which he was robbed and assaulted in the shower, he was forced to take a desk job for a couple of months to stay afloat.

Pell was one of the consultors at a meeting in September 1982 when the bishop announced Ridsdale would take a desk job in the Catholic Enquiry Centre in Sydney.

Buzzfeed ran a feature yesterday on a 39-year-old Army reservist, Jeff Maryak, who moved from North Carolina to the Washington, D.C., area to take a desk job at Fort Mead that he thought would take care of his mounting bills and living expenses.

He's trying to decide whether he'll return to the field or take a desk job with British intelligence.

Take a desk if you need it for studying.

I took a desk job with a matching 401(k) and a Cadillac health insurance plan.

Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Macfadyen), grief-stricken at the loss of his family, has taken a desk job in the archive.

He briefly took a desk job at NASA, then for years taught engineering at the University of Cincinnati.

Mollie's son, Neil, quit his job at a mortgage brokerage and took a desk at Gottlieb's company.

Niekro took a desk job in Temple Terrace, Fla., buying materials for a company that built cellphone towers.