How to Use lecture in a Sentence

lecture

1 of 2 noun
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  • I came home late and got a lecture from my parents.
  • I gave her a lecture about doing better in school.
  • She's planning to give a series of lectures on modern art.
  • Several hundred people are expected to attend the lecture.
  • The lecture is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Save me the lectures about there being more important things in the world than sports.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 3 Aug. 2023
  • In The Garden behind-the-scene series and a lecture series are offered in the spring and fall.
    — Maria Morales, Baltimore Sun, 13 Apr. 2023
  • She was given a lecture on how reading was to be taught in school.
    — WSJ, 1 July 2023
  • Your lectures lately focus on the idea that there is hope for a better world.
    — Aimee White Beazley, Travel + Leisure, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Coach Nate Oats’ halftime speech, uh, lecture was that long.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Aim for short and sweet Tweens and teens don't want a lecture during a coffee date or while watching the big game.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 5 Dec. 2023
  • In a 2015 lecture at the Architectural League of New York, the couple described the role of memory in their work.
    — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Goodall was in a bedroom, resting her eyes from her travels and lectures into the spotlights.
    — Ralph Blumenthal, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The earliest reference to the story in Smith is in the 1763 lectures on jurisprudence.
    — Iain Murray, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Food trucks, a barbecue, music, games and a lecture were all part of the lineup of activities for the June 15 event.
    — Pioneer Press Staff, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2023
  • It’s set to open in the fall of 2024, accompanied by a national lecture series.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2023
  • Photographers were present at the lectures, and the rooms were also fitted with video cameras trained on the inmates.
    — Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • As the sketch wrapped, Kearney was lifted by the harness back up into the air, but the SNL crew member had a parting lecture before closing the sketch.
    — Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The award ceremony and lecture tickets are $28 and available on Eventbrite.
    — Shauna Stuart | [email protected], al, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Oppenheimer sneaks out anyway to see the lecture and then poisons the apple on Blackett’s desk.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 27 July 2023
  • Sutherland’s source code for Sketchpad is available here, and his 1994 lecture about the history of Sketchpad can be viewed here.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Lucky freshmen even get to sleep on the third floor of Grey Towers Castle, while the lower floors host lectures, book readings, and conferences.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2023
  • And so in 1983, Douady wrote and delivered a series of lectures to explain those early results.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
  • But few people appeared to be headed for classrooms at 8 a.m., which is when many lectures begin.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Having sat through four years of lectures is not, on its own, a qualification for much of anything.
    — The Editors, National Review, 2 June 2023
  • One tradition at Midway is a lecture series, often held beneath the redwoods on the camp’s deck.
    — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The ratio inside her classroom was striking: in a lecture with about 160 students, Araica was often one of just five women.
    — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The lecture will focus on what is critical to being a neighbor and how to develop being a neighbor to all.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Members also perform ceremonial events and hold meetings and lectures in the space.
    — Zenebou Sylla, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Long before Mansi delivers a lecture on the specifics of her studies and their overlap with global climate change, the moths feel monumentally important, and deeply connected to us.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
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lecture

2 of 2 verb
  • She lectures in art at the local college.
  • I lectured her about doing better in school.
  • They lectured their children about the importance of honesty.
  • No one likes to be lectured, and no one wants to be talked down to.
    — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Don’t lecture, don’t explain, don’t guilt, don’t count to three and don’t give in.
    — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • My father liked to read and lecture, and had a bad temper.
    — Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
  • The focus is on the shows where the winners collect their trophies and lecture their lessers.
    — Lou Weiss, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2020
  • Hayhoe was full of facts, yet her first move wasn't to lecture, but to listen.
    — CBS News, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Racine’s lawyers have been invited to law schools across the country to lecture on their work.
    — Marissa J. Lang, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Avoid lecturing your child, which can turn a bite into a tantrum.
    — USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
  • Even those small 10 minutes of her kind of lecturing me lit a fire under my ass.
    — Rob Ledonne, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Now, where are the same people lecturing me about Ukraine on our border?
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The resurgence of martial arts in pop culture inspired her to lecture on Bruce Lee.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Hundreds of professors lecture on their favorite theme—the duty of the United States to set the world aright.
    — Charles Austin Beard, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
  • But the never-shy Franny comes prepared to lecture all on a cheery topic like the demise of the planet due to climate change.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Who better to lecture about the consequences of one grave mistake?
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Don’t lecture him or beg him to be different; just stay on message.
    — Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • His first role at the University of Naples was to lecture on logic and metaphysics.
    — Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2023
  • To be sure, the progressives who lecture us on the sanctity of the electoral process are the same ones who subverted it five years ago.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The fitness world loves to lecture about competing against no one but yourself.
    — Spenser Mestel, Men's Health, 29 June 2023
  • Here, Whitman plays Lindsay, who was lectured in childhood to shield her spiky and odd side from peers in order to be liked.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
  • By turns, one of us lectured for the first hour, and the other served as commentator during the class discussion for the second.
    — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Thomas has lectured blacks about the evils of affirmative action.
    — John Blake, CNN, 7 Dec. 2019
  • But this isn't the first time Keilar attempted to lecture a Republican of color on the subject of race.
    — Fox News, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Tananarive Due is the master of Black horror, even teaching a class where Jordan Peele guest-lectured.
    — Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The scripts would treat food as a source of excitement and not lecture kids about nutritional content.
    — Clint Worthington, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2021
  • From the head of a large round table, Mr. Xi lectured female delegates at the closing meeting on Monday.
    — Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Soldiers conducting street raids lecture young men found with small bags of marijuana on the perils of drugs or a life of crime.
    — Annie Correal Federico Rios, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • For weeks, our teacher lectured on this new way to communicate.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Last week, Putin got to lecture millions of Americans by granting an interview to Tucker Carlson.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024

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