1
: a discourse given before an audience or class especially for instruction
2
: a formal reproof
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Examples of lecture in a Sentence
Noun
She's planning to give a series of lectures on modern art.
Several hundred people are expected to attend the lecture.
I came home late and got a lecture from my parents.
I gave her a lecture about doing better in school.
Verb
She lectures in art at the local college.
They lectured their children about the importance of honesty.
I lectured her about doing better in school.
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Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2024
In a lecture in 2012, the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson considered (opens a new tab) gravitational waves from the sun, where the violent churning of matter inside the star should constantly send out mild tremors in space-time.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
Christian Holub, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
The whole thing reads as if it is being delivered by someone looking down over their glasses with their hands on their hips like a parent lecturing a child.
—Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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Noun
The museum also hosts workshops, lectures, and performances and is planning an exhibition on the workings of quantum physics for next year.
—Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2024
In a lecture in 2012, the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson considered (opens a new tab) gravitational waves from the sun, where the violent churning of matter inside the star should constantly send out mild tremors in space-time.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
Verb
They even get lectured by parents for breaking rules — but that doesn't stop them from finding a spaceship buried in the nearby woods.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
The whole thing reads as if it is being delivered by someone looking down over their glasses with their hands on their hips like a parent lecturing a child.
—Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Lecture.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lecture. Accessed 20 Nov. 2024.
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lecture
1 of 2 noun
lec·ture
ˈlek-chər 
-shər
1
: a talk given before an audience or class especially for instruction
lecture
2 of 2 verb
lectured; lecturing
ˈlek-chə-riŋ
ˈlek-shriŋ
1
: to give a lecture or a series of lectures
2
: to instruct by lectures
3
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