1.   He pounded the desk in exasperation.

2.   Osman pounded the desk joyfully.

3.   He has the tone of a country preacher when he talks, his voice rising, his fist pounding the desk.

4.   He wore a sling on his right hand, injured during a speech Wednesday when he pounded a desk that turned out to be marble, not wood.

5.   Oberdorfer pounded his desk twice for order, using his fist instead of a gavel.

6.   Several senators pounded their desks.

7.   When the conversation ended, Kerry pounded his desk in glee.

8.   Khrushchev pounding a desk at the United Nations.

9.   Pounding their desks to force their final working session past midnight, Honduran lawmakers used the time to give themselves a huge tax break on imported cars early Thursday.

10.   Ruling lawmakers in the parliamentary chambers pounded their desks to sound approval for the call despite the glaring vacancies in more than a third of the seats.