How to Use lectern in a Sentence

lectern

noun
  • Trump said to Bettman from the lectern.
    — Sean Gentille, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Pence cried out, spreading his arms to grasp each side of the lectern.
    — T.a. Frank, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • There were rows of desks, and a lectern behind a fence at the front.
    — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Trump ducked behind a lectern as agents piled on top of him as human shields.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 14 July 2024
  • Thunberg, who is five feet tall, could barely be seen over the lectern.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Barbara stood a few steps away from the lectern and faced the shooter head-on.
    — Jazmine Hughes, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Leftwich stepped away from the lectern, grabbed a page of notes, and resumed.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2018
  • There had to be a run on throat lozenges with all that bellowing from the lectern.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The lectern is facing the jurors on the right side of the courtroom.
    — Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The tall figure strode up to the blackboard behind the lectern.
    — Alexander Kluge, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Bright African textiles were wrapped around the altar and lectern.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The head fed, of course, also weighed in from his digital lectern.
    — Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • In Aspen, the set was spare, just four lecterns on the main stage, flanked by two screens.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 1 July 2018
  • Christie said, leaning on the lectern and wagging his finger.
    — Robert Costa, Washington Post, 4 July 2017
  • Seconds ticked away as the man at the lectern tried to compose himself enough to speak.
    — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Sharma led me past a counter with a tap for cold brew and into a room filled with chairs and a lectern.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • Mounted on the lectern was a hollow glass tube with copper wire coiled around it in two places.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Beshear, like the evening’s other speakers, was behind the lectern.
    — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2025
  • An empty lectern waited at its center.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • One by one, the former students walked to a lectern and told the judge how Kline groomed them.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Then King turned and appeared to collapse in a seat behind the lectern.
    — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Walz will stand behind the lectern on the left side of the stage, which will be on the right side of viewers' screens.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2024
  • At the evening meeting, supporters of the smoking ban went first to the lectern.
    — Robert Cadwallader, star-telegram.com, 9 May 2017
  • The table next to Trump’s lectern groaned with stacks of manila folders.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 11 Jan. 2017
  • The governor, standing at a lectern, then pulled out a pen and signed the pardons.
    — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 8 May 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Then the smiling photo of him, lectern in hand, rocketed around the world.
    — Carter Weinhofer, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The crowd rose to its feet as Hadzic, overcome with emotion, stepped away from the lectern.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 23 May 2024
  • 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

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