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

One day he brought home an antique school desk that didn’t sell.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2024

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

So I can see the jarring scene, albeit in gray scale: Margo Roth Spiegelman sits in a black leather office chair, hunched over a school desk, writing.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green