How to Use rostrum in a Sentence

rostrum

noun
  • The president, in his gray suit and pocket square, took his place on the rostrum.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The Pinocchio frog is just one of a handful of New Guinea treefrogs in the same genus that sport these spiky noses, or rostrums.
    Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 7 June 2019
  • Male Perrin’s beaked whales have their teeth near the tip of the beak, or rostrum, and the image appeared to show just that.
    J. B. MacKinnon, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Trump will speak on a rostrum with a background of green marble.
    David Jackson, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Michael Clevenger/Courier-Journal The sign was propped up next to the rostrum.
    Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 3 Oct. 2017
  • An awestruck Wiesel, who was speaking at the rostrum, struggled for words.
    Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The weird thing about the stage set is Ringo’s [precarious] drum rostrum.
    Lucie Young, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • This eerie, boneless creature looks like a shark with a chainsaw for a nose, called a rostrum.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
  • Trump has not been shy about slamming Kim, whether on Twitter or from the rostrum of the United Nations.
    Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The lifeguards noticed that the animal had blood near its rostrum, or nose.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • McCarthy gestured to the Speaker’s rostrum and joked that Flores will soon be running the place.
    Dallas News, 21 June 2022
  • Trump stepped to the side of the rostrum, buttoned his suit jacket, and, like a mannequin in motion, returned to the microphone.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Biden will step up to the House speaker’s rostrum to address a nation in conflict with itself.
    Calvin Woodward and Zeke Miller, chicagotribune.com, 27 Feb. 2022
  • At least there aren’t any rostrum photographs flashed up to reveal how much Whishaw looks like Limonov.
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024
  • The teeth on a sawshark’s rostrum regularly fall out and grow back.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2012
  • The deputy speaker and speaker pro tempore run House sessions from the rostrum when the speaker is absent.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2023
  • That had been a far cry from his bellicose rhetoric, issued both on Twitter and from the rostrum of the United Nations last fall.
    Catherine Lucey and Zeke Miller, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2018
  • Members filed up to the rostrum to cast their votes, as others stood behind them and anxiously looked up at the House scoreboard.
    Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Prieto sat behind the speaker's rostrum, sometimes on the phone, other times looking out on the floor.
    Dustin Racioppi , Nicholas Pugliese and Bob Jordan, USA TODAY, 1 July 2017
  • Gideon put lawmakers at ease and asked Hanington to speak with her at her rostrum.
    BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
  • The Australian bottlenose dolphin, a cetacean, will wear a sea sponge on its rostrum for protection when rooting around the ocean floor.
    National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Auctioneers at the rostrum can often tell who is going to win the bidding in advance.
    Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 15 May 2014
  • With Prince Phillip at her side, everyone in America’s legislative branch could hear — and see — the queen atop the House rostrum.
    Chad Pergram | Fox News, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Their signature feature is the unusual flat paddle, or rostrum, that extends from the snout and can be half as long as the fish.
    New York Times, 26 May 2018
  • In the House, there’s a front microphone near the speaker’s rostrum where lawmakers explain their bills.
    Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2022
  • While the Democrat who presides over the senate, Fetterman, stepped away from the senate rostrum Scarnati, seized the gavel and ordered the vote to go on.
    Tara Law, Time, 29 June 2019
  • Savannah put on a tie and battled her anxiety, making her way to the rostrum.
    Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 20 June 2017
  • Arriving at the rostrum Trump picks up a glass of water, holds it for a moment and then, curiously, just sets it back down.
    Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Corcoran signed the two subpoenas on the House rostrum and announced that a process server was in his office, waiting to serve them.
    Steve Bousquet and Emily L. Mahoney, miamiherald, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Carvel’s entrance is hilarious — driving a golf cart onto the stage, before making a putt that misses the flag and sends his ball off the edge of the rostrum.
    Demetrios Matheou, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2022

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