roll-top desk

Example Sentences

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Authorities found the handgun after an officer “asked the child where he put his toy” and the boy motioned toward a roll-top desk in the living room.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2023

Hildy has hidden Earl in a roll-top desk; its false back allows the curled-up Magaro to stretch out backstage.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2017

In other words, she picked up a roll-top desk and a three-seated couch.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2016

She wrote thousands, at a roll-top desk that had once belonged to J. R. R. Tolkien, answering anyone who wrote to her.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2016

Then our beds and my father’s roll-top desk.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver