at-desk

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adjective

carried out at a person's desk at his or her place of workan at-desk massage

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Words nearby at-desk

Atchison, at close quarters, at close range, at cross purposes, at death's door, at-desk, ate, at each other's throats, A Team, at ease, Atebrin

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How to use at-desk in a sentence

I was sick in street gutters, onto my desk, at dinners with friends.
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But Scott, in taking the parlance of the street to the SportsCenter desk, helped affirm its ascendance.
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President Harry Truman kept a sign on his desk that read: “The Buck Stops Here.”
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While the desk sergeant ran a background check, he was roughed up by another officer in the lock-up.
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She suggested that Gregory stack newspapers on his desk to give the set an intimate, coffeehouse feel.
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Tressan was monstrous ill-at-ease, and his face lost a good deal of its habitual plethora of colour.
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At his desk sat his secretary, who had been a witness of the interview, lost in wonder almost as great as the Seneschal's own.
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Taking his stand at the end of the desk, he made MacRae reiterate in detail the grim happenings of that night.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Dobson, mouth agape, struck a little bell on the desk and the orderly stepped in from the outer room.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
When I again turned to Lessard he still stood at the end of the desk, industriously paring his fingernails.
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