rostrum

Example Sentences

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The address will mark the first time in five years that Newsom delivers a State of the State from the Assembly rostrum.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

From the rostrum, Barker leaned in dramatically, smiled, sometimes waited.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

In November 2017, Jussi Pylkkänen, the global president of Christie’s, was on the rostrum in New York to sell Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi.”

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2023

Religious conservatives cheered Johnson’s election Wednesday, after which he brought his Bible to the rostrum before taking the oath of office.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2023

I kept seeing my father standing at the rostrum in front of a vast empty hall, speaking to seats made vacant by the snow.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok