How to Use rostrum in a Sentence

rostrum

noun
  • Trump will speak on a rostrum with a background of green marble.
    — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Then a jagged rostrum breached from below the murky water.
    — Jack Prator, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The president, in his gray suit and pocket square, took his place on the rostrum.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2021
  • An awestruck Wiesel, who was speaking at the rostrum, struggled for words.
    — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2018
  • This eerie, boneless creature looks like a shark with a chainsaw for a nose, called a rostrum.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
  • The catcher is near the whale’s rostrum–near its beak, snout, and vertebrae.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The lifeguards noticed that the animal had blood near its rostrum, or nose.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The teeth on a sawshark’s rostrum regularly fall out and grow back.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2012
  • The weird thing about the stage set is Ringo’s [precarious] drum rostrum.
    — Lucie Young, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Gideon put lawmakers at ease and asked Hanington to speak with her at her rostrum.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
  • One clerk puts on gloves to take a silver inkstand out of a drawer and place it onto the speaker’s rostrum.
    — Ben Jacobs, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 June 2024
  • Some specimens also had a much steeper angle of their rostrum, the hard beak-like shape of the face.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
  • Auctioneers at the rostrum can often tell who is going to win the bidding in advance.
    — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 15 May 2014
  • Savannah put on a tie and battled her anxiety, making her way to the rostrum.
    — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 20 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • The state also warns against standing or sitting next to the rostrum, which has up to 29 teeth on each side, experts say.
    — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Cicadas do not eat plant leaves, flowers or fruit but instead suck fluid from the stems of woody shrubs and trees with a long, straw-like tube called a rostrum.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the House, there’s a front microphone near the speaker’s rostrum where lawmakers explain their bills.
    — Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Michael Clevenger/Courier-Journal The sign was propped up next to the rostrum.
    — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Their dorsal fins were not yet erect, their umbilical opening had not closed, and both heads had hair on the rostrums, or beaks—all tell-tale features of newborns.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 16 June 2017
  • Albritton was on the rostrum with the other two leaders at the time, having just presided over the opening ceremony.
    — Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Truman pulled out some paper and a pen, even though he was seated at his elevated desk on the rostrum in the Senate chamber.
    — CBS News, 5 June 2020

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