writing table
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Commemorating the 250th anniversary of her birth, the statue will feature the literary giant standing by her writing table.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2024
She is seated at her writing table and looks at us directly with what seems to be real human understanding.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2023
Under A.C.’s guidance, that modest storefront expanded to include an upstairs reading room housing deluxe editions, a fireplace, a writing table and comfortable chairs in which customers were encouraged to linger, study or converse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
He collected a few paraffin lamps and some used furniture: a Russian wrought-iron bed, a writing table, chairs like “the chairs that van Gogh painted.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
X sat looking at the door for a long while, then turned his chair around toward the writing table and picked up his portable typewriter from the floor.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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