How to Use lectern in a Sentence

lectern

noun
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  • There were rows of desks, and a lectern behind a fence at the front.
    — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Ryan shouted from a lectern on the House floor on Tuesday.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The governor, standing at a lectern, then pulled out a pen and signed the pardons.
    — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 8 May 2021
  • Biden and Trump will stand at lecterns decided earlier by a coin flip.
    — Sarah Beth Hensley, ABC News, 24 June 2024
  • The president's team chose his position on the stage, selecting the lectern on the right.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 24 June 2024
  • Sitting beside the lectern on stage, Robinson laughed throughout Duncan’s speech.
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 15 May 2021
  • His honors French students pooled their money, bought wood and built him a new lectern for his classroom, decorated with a fleur-de-lis.
    — Washington Post, 25 May 2021
  • As almost every director does at a major preview screening, Chu introduced his film, walking in from stage right to a spotlit lectern.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 9 June 2021
  • With a shrug from behind the Pentagon lectern later, the Centcom commander said the Taliban promised not to allow that to happen.
    — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Biden and Trump entered the debate stage in Atlanta, serious looks on their faces (Trump looked kind of mad, actually) and just took their places behind the lecterns.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, USA TODAY, 28 June 2024
  • Several White House spokespeople have attempted careers in media after leaving their lectern in the briefing room behind.
    — Benjamin Mullin, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The lectern is facing the jurors on the right side of the courtroom.
    — Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Duke set it down as the Rev. Roy L. Tate stepped toward the lectern.
    — Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Pence cried out, spreading his arms to grasp each side of the lectern.
    — T.a. Frank, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • The tall figure strode up to the blackboard behind the lectern.
    — Alexander Kluge, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Barbara stood a few steps away from the lectern and faced the shooter head-on.
    — Jazmine Hughes, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • One by one, the former students walked to a lectern and told the judge how Kline groomed them.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The first stop was at what looked like a lectern, in a cubicled room.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • First, there’s the marble lectern—a relic of a Catholic church—which still serves as the host stand.
    — Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor, 31 July 2023
  • There had to be a run on throat lozenges with all that bellowing from the lectern.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Amer will stand at a White House lectern one day and lead a protest outside its doors the next.
    — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The bathroom became backstage and the bed was my lectern.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 27 June 2021
  • Bright African textiles were wrapped around the altar and lectern.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Seconds ticked away as the man at the lectern tried to compose himself enough to speak.
    — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Thunberg, who is five feet tall, could barely be seen over the lectern.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The crowd rose to its feet as Hadzic, overcome with emotion, stepped away from the lectern.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 23 May 2024
  • When the music died down, Valerie Sheares Ashby took hold of the lectern and gazed around the room.
    — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 12 June 2023
  • Over the course of the evening, speakers filed in one-by-one to stand behind a lectern and face a surreal scene.
    — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Those who spoke Tuesday went to a lectern about 20 feet from the 24-year-old gunman, stared him in the eye and let out their anger and grief.
    — CBS News, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Rotunno walked to the lectern and asked why Sciorra hadn’t called the police.
    — Ken Auletta, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022

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