school desk

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One video starts with the character face down on a school desk, his legs not even close to touching the ground.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Round a corner and out pops a slick airbrushed portrait of a demonic clown, or a biohazard symbol on a green and black gradient, scratched like a school desk.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023

Recife's councilwoman Cida Pedrosa was the key mover in introducing the new legislation: "A lot of the stories that I'd heard were of people who were humiliated because they couldn't fit behind a school desk."

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2022

Joe Trupia fell back into the seat of an old wooden school desk.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 2, 2022

Then one afternoon, maybe about a month after I’d started, I came up to his room and found him at his school desk, carefully going over a drawing, his face nearly touching the paper.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro