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

“The people’s house is back in business,” Mr. Johnson told lawmakers in his inaugural address, delivered from the speaker’s rostrum.

From Washington Times • Oct. 25, 2023

We set it up by the rostrum on a square of asbestos.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck