How To Use Desk-bound In A Sentence
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Now, the computer signals a warning to all desk-bound individuals.
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But the Army medical panel told him that the desk-bound nature of his job as a supply controller meant that he could rely on a further ten years of service.
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The Government was trying to reduce the time police spent desk-bound, he said, and by next spring the numbers of officers should be up to 130,000.
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John Lindberg, a desk-bound scientist, spends his coffee breaks walking up and down several flights.
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I fear I have years of this ahead of me, as I can't see my career moving away from the desk-bound realm any time soon.
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I'd love to be able to work out all day but my desk-bound job doesn't let me.
The Sun
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Today he said desk-bound senior ranking officers had also embraced the idea of taking to the streets regularly each month.
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Unfortunately, I'm going to be desk-bound for most of it.
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More people than ever are swapping their desk-bound jobs for a vocation that enables them to be hands-on, use their brain and be in charge of their own destiny.
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Of course, home-bound consumers and desk-bound businessmen could drive, but petrol prices being what they are, that, too, is expensive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Keeping active while working is important, especially if you're desk-bound in your job.
Times, Sunday Times
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Imagine her frustration, though, as, desk-bound, she watched Lawrence make his famous forays into the desert - all done on her advice.
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At the same time, an active hunting lifestyle is gradually being replaced by sedentary habits, including desk-bound employment.
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I swapped my desk-bound nine-to-five existence for a seemingly glamorous career in music-festival production.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nor is he some desk-bound technocrat with no feel for the product or brand.
Times, Sunday Times
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This list of office slang may come in handy for all you desk-bound folks.
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The increasing burden of legislation, designed by well meaning but desk-bound bureaucrats, ensured that only the very large could survive, unless they found a niche.
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Eating them while leading a desk-bound or sofa-dominated life now appears even less useful.
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Things started to tidy up by lunchtime, so I walked another 30 minutes back to the station, rode a still-delayed train to work and put in the usual afternoon's quota of desk-bound confinement.
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But he is not sure he wants to, given that any future job would be desk-bound.
Times, Sunday Times
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He said only 229 were desk-bound under a new agreement.
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‘We encourage far too many young people to aspire to desk-bound and managerial careers,’ he said.
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They believe face-to-face contact is what encourages bright ideas at work, but desk-bound staff no longer talk the way they used to.
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I could feel back muscles, long-neglected in my habitual desk-bound slouch, working.
Times, Sunday Times
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Similarly, the army, when faced with a budget cut, never points the finger at desk-bound lieutenant colonels.
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But union leaders are angry that instead of recalling staff who are off duty to man the cars, or using desk-bound officers, management are taking firefighters off engines.
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That's his euphemism for the paunch so characteristic of many middle-aged, desk-bound executives.
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It is the perfect counter to the desk-bound stasis of my writing day.
Times, Sunday Times
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But she soon gave up her desk-bound job for a life on the ocean waves.
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Operational job losses will be limited to 64 by putting desk-bound staff ‘back on the pumps’.
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Then there's paddle-boarding, volleyball or the back-fit class that worked wonders on my desk-bound body.
The Sun
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But the odd walk to work will do wonders for desk-bound modern man.
Times, Sunday Times
