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.
  • These book talks are not lectures.
    — Fern Lebo, Sun Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Sat through all those lectures?
    — Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
  • The lecture is free and open to the public.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The event is designed as more than a lecture.
    — Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Free workshops and lectures will be held both days.
    — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
  • No lecture or strict ground rules are required.
    — Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 4 June 2026
  • Her students find her lectures passé.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2026
  • As luck has it, James is also in the lecture.
    — Sean Cho Ayres, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Six years had passed since the lecture in Moscow.
    — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The lecture gives us a bit of background on Greg’s life.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2026
  • She was given a lecture on how reading was to be taught in school.
    — WSJ, 1 July 2023
  • Lindauer said he was healed by von Frisch’s lectures.
    — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
  • But please spare both the niece and the unwitting nephew a lecture.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2025
  • This is a lecture only, and no samples will be served.
    — Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Adams said her lecture was focused on the phrase, not the movement.
    — Cate Charron, IndyStar, 8 Dec. 2025
  • While the lectures have been private, recordings of them have leaked.
    — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 26 May 2026
  • People came for the music, not a lecture.
    — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Bielsa then gave the team a 48-minute lecture, which did not go over well.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 27 June 2026
  • Each course consists of a video lecture and ends with a quiz that must be passed to move on to the next unit.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Earhart would execute a stunt flight, write a book about it, and then go on a lecture tour.
    — ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
  • This woman is on the lecture circuit.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
  • This is the issue with celebrity lectures.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 June 2026
  • No one wants a lecture on tannins at a crowded street party.
    — Jonathan Kleeman, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Your lectures lately focus on the idea that there is hope for a better world.
    — Amiee White Beazley, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Your lectures lately focus on the idea that there is hope for a better world.
    — Aimee White Beazley, Travel + Leisure, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Monday’s lecture was a bit more heartfelt.
    — Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 21 Apr. 2026

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
  • With me, my wife lectures me more than my children.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Avoid lecturing your child, which can turn a bite into a tantrum.
    — USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
  • 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
  • Hayhoe was full of facts, yet her first move wasn't to lecture, but to listen.
    — CBS News, 5 Oct. 2021
  • For a time she was asked to lecture new volunteers … until she was asked not to.
    — Mimi Pond, People.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Don’t lecture him or beg him to be different; just stay on message.
    — Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • The same woman Don had been lecturing about beer.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • We weren’t being lectured to anymore.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The focus is on the shows where the winners collect their trophies and lecture their lessers.
    — Lou Weiss, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2020
  • Therefore, now is not the time to be lecturing our partners and allies.
    — Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Now, where are the same people lecturing me about Ukraine on our border?
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Even those small 10 minutes of her kind of lecturing me lit a fire under my ass.
    — Rob Ledonne, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Resist the urge to explain, defend or lecture.
    — Becky Kennedy sheryl Ziegler, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The fitness world loves to lecture about competing against no one but yourself.
    — Spenser Mestel, Men's Health, 29 June 2023
  • Who better to lecture about the consequences of one grave mistake?
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 2023
  • For weeks, our teacher lectured on this new way to communicate.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Kids learn by doing, instead of just being lectured about safety.
    — Gordy Megroz, Outside Online, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Thomas has lectured blacks about the evils of affirmative action.
    — John Blake, CNN, 7 Dec. 2019
  • His temper and tendency to lecture did not make matters any better.
    — New York Times, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Should the guy who spends his spare time dodging bullets really be lecturing him on death wishes?
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The scripts would treat food as a source of excitement and not lecture kids about nutritional content.
    — Clint Worthington, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The work, then, is not to lecture communities into trusting us.
    — Tyler Evans, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2026
  • Hands-on activities ground new knowledge in ways that lectures and reading often cannot.
    — Emma Marcucci, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The resurgence of martial arts in pop culture inspired her to lecture on Bruce Lee.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Half of the restaurant will lecture you about the waste of throwing away the unused packets — never mind that the packets are tiny.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025

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