How do you use the word "desk" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "desk": Clear up your desk a bit. Your book is on the desk.

Desk Meaning

/dɛsk/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.

nounA reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.

Sentence Examples

Clear up your desk a bit.

Your book is on the desk.

I spend all day sitting at a desk.

CEFR Practice Quiz

She placed the stack of papers on her wooden ____ by the window.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Clear up your ____ a bit.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English deske, desque, from Medieval Latin desca, modified from Old Italian desco, from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, disc, discus, dish, disk, and diskos. See also German Tisch, "table".

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands." — 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

"Each aux out is connected to an effects unit and the signal is then returned into the desk." — 2009, Rick Snoman, Dance Music Manual: Tools, Toys and Techniques, page 69:

"[…]at best a competent viola player occupies a first desk, so that he may play the occasional solos for that instrument; but I have even seen this function performed by the leaderof the first violins." — 2003, Sheila M. Nelson, The Violin and Viola: History, Structure, Techniques, page 158:

"First desk: Lalance, chevalier de, composer; Meslay, Masson de, President of the exchequer, amateur; Blasius, Pierre, the elder, professor of music; Second desk:[…]" — 2006, Gabriel Banat, The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow, page 270:

"Lori performed for years with the American Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski as a first-desk violinist. (She says that Stokowski was not a Russian but an Englishman named Stokes. His Russian accent varied a lot.)" — 2014, Reuben Hersh, Peter Lax, Mathematician, page 46:

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