lecturing

Example Sentences

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Both the Pentagon and the Vatican denied a report, published in the Free Press last week, that the meeting was tense, with Colby lecturing the cardinal on U.S. military power.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

If the novel stayed in that lecturing, gloomy zone, it’d be easy to lose patience with it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

Mr Foster taught English language at the International Study Centre, affiliated to the University of Lincoln, for eight years, before lecturing for four years at the university's business school.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2025

Yes, the company is working with the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, whose 18 researchers and lecturing staff foster Indigenous scholarship.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2025

She joined “the lecturing corps” as an agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society, earning ten dollars a week, an amount equal to about $300 in today’s dollars.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling