How to Use lecture in a Sentence

lecture

1 of 2 noun

• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• The novel had been published earlier that year, and the trial, which Woolf would attend, took place a couple of weeks after the Cambridge lectures.
  — Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• In fact, he’s first met giving a lecture on identity, a slightly on-the-nose gesture toward the film’s core theme: How much can people truly change?
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2023

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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
• Furthermore, a guest enjoying the extreme largess of an overnight stay doesn’t really have the right to lecture the host on etiquette.
  — Amy Dickinson, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024