How to Use desktop in a Sentence

desktop

1 of 2 noun

• The desktop was covered with books and stacks of papers.
• He created a new folder on his desktop.
• The plan is to make the desktop app available to all users in early 2024.
  — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2023
• This will request the desktop version of the site for this session.
  — Justin Pot, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2023
• Read all about how Threads may be the thing that kills Twitter, and how to run Threads on your desktop.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 13 July 2023
• And desktop users have to figure out the comparative virtues of the iMac and the Mac Mini.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2024
• Locate the Trashcan Icon in your dock bar on your desktop.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024
• The company had already made a mark with the desktop Apple II in 1977.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• The song was previewed this week in a desktop platform game called Kaxtyn.
  — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2023
• Nor does the app have a desktop client yet, which is the one thing that would probably quintuple my time spent on the site.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• The humidifier plugs in with a USB and is the perfect size for most desktops.
  — Lauren Manaker Ms, Rdn, Health, 22 Mar. 2023
• Of the remaining features, a desktop web version has clearly been high on the list.
  — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 4 Aug. 2023
• Outlook Marking senders as safe in Outlook on the desktop.
  — WIRED, 17 Sep. 2023
• First, there is currently no desktop version, a must for those who want to scroll at work or get off their phones.
  — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
• Easily add it to any surface with this fluffy faux fur cover that’s perfect for chairs, desktops, or even the back of a couch.
  — Taylor Gumm, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2024
• The company is telling users to uninstall the 3CX desktop app until a new version can be released.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 31 Mar. 2023
• The Baby Yoda search Easter egg works on both mobile and desktop.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 4 May 2023
• His computer’s desktop showed a black-and-white closeup of Diana Ross.
  — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
• But the engagement soon died down, and Scanlon stopped looking at the platform, in large part because of its lack of a desktop option.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• The compact design allows for easy placement on a desktop.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Sep. 2023
• On Chrome for desktop, click the three dots in the upper right corner of your screen and head to Google Password Manager—the manager will open in a new tab.
  — Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 13 Sep. 2023
• The changes are available globally on mobile web and desktop.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2023
• The keys' pitch and travel are halfway between a laptop and a desktop computer.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• That’s definitely at the other end of the price and performance spectrum from the sort of desktop CPUs being talked about now.
  — Bydavid Meyer, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
• It will be made available to viewers on mobile, desktop and tablet devices and in replay.
  — Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2023
• To create his images, Fridge used a desktop lamp for the sun, an opaque disc for the moon, and a little motor pulling the disc on a string for the gravitational pull that steers the moon around the sun.
  — Elissaveta M. Brandon, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
• Its new desktop version, announced Tuesday, may be the hook some users needed — though the question remains: Why post on Threads?
  — Angela Yang, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
• The company’s mobile app has until now been mostly a companion app to the desktop, a way to access your open tabs and not much else.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 29 Jan. 2024
• The floor, the railings and even the paper in the beekeepers’ desktop inboxes are bumblebee yellow.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• How about nearly $17 a month for Instagram plus Facebook—but on desktop?
  — Sam Schechner, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2023

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desktop

2 of 2 adjective

• She is working on a desktop video project.
• The checkmark remained on the desktop version of the site, but not on the app.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Nov. 2022
• Scale and get a printer-friendly, desktop version of the recipe here.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2020
• Saving a pin on the desktop version of Google Maps After dropping the pin, click Save on the side menu.
  — Toby Grey, BGR, 11 Sep. 2022
• Desktop ad units, which currently sit at the top of the page, will soon appear in-line with feed.
  — Lara O’Reilly, WSJ, 22 June 2017
• That seems like a smarter way to connect mobile and desktop devices.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2019
• Nothing can make or break a desktop PC setup like the wrong keyboard.
  — Jess Grey, Wired, 22 June 2021
• Amazon workers can still log in to the desktop version of TikTok for now, the email noted.
  — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 10 July 2020
• There are plans for a desktop version that would cost closer to two or three thousand.
  — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• The Android version of Tumblr and the desktop version of the app appear to be unaffected by the change.
  — Aj Dellinger, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• One caveat to using Jitsi Meet: Its desktop version works best in the Chrome browser and a few others.
  — Grant Clauser, New York Times, 6 May 2020
• Need a little more desktop real estate, or just tired of hunching over a small screen all day?
  — Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 18 Sep. 2020
• From food writer Cathy Barrow. Scale and get a printer-friendly, desktop version of the recipe here.
  — Cathy Barrow, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2020
• For anyone rocking a desktop PC, a new graphics card could be in order.
  — Ian Paul, PCWorld, 2 Nov. 2018
• Long a popular feature on desktop devices, the ability to jack up the speed of videos is coming to the mobile app.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2017
• The use of a Xeon processor implies this would be used in servers, of course, but there’s nothing saying that this couldn’t be adapted for a desktop PC.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 7 Oct. 2019
• Write your number one goal on your bathroom mirror, make a desktop background of your roadmap to success.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• Khan said the deals happened as people were moving from desktop computers to phones.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 8 June 2022
• Spotify, Telegram and WeChat, for example, open in a desktop format on the wider screen.
  — Ben Sin, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• New users won't feel cramped, especially if they're used to using desktop PCs.
  — Sian Babish, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2020
• Beginning Thursday, the company will start testing the redesigns with some U.S. users on the desktop version of its app.
  — Barbara Ortutay, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2021
• There will also be a desktop version of the service available with an even richer set of features for users and their doctors to explore.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2020
• There will be a desktop computer set up for demonstration.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• Another issue: The participants in the study were using a desktop version of the app in a computer in the clinic—not on their own phones and on their own time.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 17 Dec. 2018
• Bryant said that while consumers and business snapped up all the laptops as the pandemic hit, Intel also saw desktop growth during Q2 and Q3.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 9 Dec. 2020
• Apps are available for all major mobile and desktop platforms.
  — Don Edrington Computer Tutor, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 July 2017
• Initially, the ads will run only on mobile, not desktop devices.
  — Barb Darrow, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2017
• Just over 60 percent of those were desktop, 32 percent mobile and just under seven percent tablet users.
  — cleveland, 12 Dec. 2020
• Just like with the desktop version of Adobe Acrobat, the free Android equivalent can also be used to sign documents.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 19 June 2022
• Webb went on to make many more animalistic designs, including a coral monkey brooch with gems for eyes and a desktop object in the form of a gold leopard.
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020

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