How to Use lecture hall in a Sentence

lecture hall

noun
  • The old council chamber, built in the shape of a blast furnace, was now a lecture hall.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The pair met in a lecture hall and dated for six years before marrying.
    — Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Eleven of those students were struck by gunfire when a shooter entered the lecture hall.
    — Emily Greene-Colozzi, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Stories that made the setting feel more like a family dinner than a lecture hall.
    — Ryan Gable, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
  • In the first image, Reynolds, 48, stands in the middle of a large crowd of people in what appears to be a lecture hall.
    — Jen Juneau, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Peirce was something of a porcupine; James was one of the smoothest, most charming people ever to stroll into a lecture hall.
    — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • Free marketeers will advise deans to cut whatever course can’t fill a giant lecture hall or lead to lucrative research grants.
    — Lydia Kiesling, TIME, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Built in 132, it was used as an entertainment space, lecture hall, and, yes, an actual library.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Now, as a favorite of Blazy, the lecture hall may suddenly seem a long way away for Bhavitha Mandava.
    — Veronica Cristino, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2025
  • In another image, children spill out of a school bus parked near a stately lecture hall, greeted by a police officer in dress uniform.
    — Curbed, 21 June 2023
  • Those same gates are piled high with memorial flowers this week, after a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall on Saturday afternoon.
    — Lucy Feldman, Time, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Officers in riot gear from more than a dozen law enforcement agencies were involved in clearing the group from the lecture hall, as well as those in the encampment.
    — Nathaniel Percy, Orange County Register, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Those include workshops, labs, a lecture hall and study areas, plus a career services center with advisors and interview prep.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • This summer, operators hope to reopen a movie theater at the ship, which can double as a lecture hall and host other events, Caloca said.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The team held a formal adoption and signing day ceremony on April 16 in the school’s lecture hall before lacrosse practice.
    — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • In fact, in his vision of the future, the lecture hall—those ubiquitous tiers of seats with fold-down writing arms, curving around a professor at a podium—will play a much smaller role.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Apr. 2012
  • The campus announced in a social media post that a group of protesters had entered a lecture hall, with the building takeover broadcast over Instagram.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
  • Last week, a student in my course on artificial intelligence bounded into the lecture hall, full of energy and optimism.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2025
  • The main room, with a capacity for 100, works well as an intimate concert theater, lecture hall and potential wedding venue.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2025
  • As the seventh graders settled into a lecture hall at a school near London, the topic at hand was not human rights, historical events or different religions.
    — Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Kameron Neal’s video design transforms Krit Robinson’s part lab, part lecture hall set into something kaleidoscopic.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
  • In the finals, everyone gathered once more in the big lecture hall, where Tengbjerg had the top winners of each category introduce themselves.
    — Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The lecture hall scene is a master class in delivering a ton of exposition in a compelling way (credit to screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan).
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
  • Sara begins the story in a lecture hall, but she is gradually pulled from her too-comfortable routines of rumination—in her office, in the library—which have so far failed to yield any breakthroughs on her project.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The origin of the 9mm pistol that Claudio Neves Valente fired in a Brown University lecture hall is not known to the public.
    — Mark Reynolds, The Providence Journal, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Introduction Kirby set up camp in the main lecture hall where the mathematicians gathered each morning, mostly avoiding the brainstorming sessions.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Balboa Park buildings are immediately requisitioned by the Navy, including the Globe, which becomes a wartime lecture hall.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • This last capability is popular for petty mischief, judging by the numerous videos online showing people turning off lecture hall projectors, or fast-food-restaurant menu displays.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The scientists had 35 university students all take part in 50-minute lectures that were held both in person in a conventional lecture hall and online via videoconferencing.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2023
  • At a typical research university, an undergraduate course like this would meet inside a lecture hall, perhaps with separate breakout sections for discussion led by graduate students.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026

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