1.   Several men are pushing school desks and chairs into neat rows.

2.   Apple has already proved that this is possible, with its discontinued line of eMate portables, which could withstand being dropped from a school desk.

3.   Each visitor passes through security screeners and sits at a one-armed school desk to fill out a questionnaire.

4.   For a left-handed child, most school desks are unusable.

5.   In our youth we practiced crawling under school desks lest we catch fallout from atomic bombs.

6.   In fits of rage, his daughter, Tania, would bang her fists on a school desk.

7.   It seemed, he said, that Quincy was overrun with moving vans loaded up with school desks, chairs and textbooks.

8.   On Monday night, a group of children sat at school desks on the convention-hall podium behind Laura Bush as she addressed the delegates.

9.   Now two inventors have patented a school desk with a lid that raises to reveal a computer screen on its underside and a keyboard and mouse in the compartment.

10.   Our school desks still bore the holes for long-forgotten ink bottles, while our classrooms bore the holes of missing students.