Example sentences for: lectern

How can you use “lectern” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some of the pillars come from an ancient Roman temple, with two Corinthian capitals serving as a lectern.

  • Late Edition 's (CNN) producers juxtapose images of the president's recent visit to disaster territory (casually embracing a black family) with the vice president's (dyspeptic speechifying from behind a lectern), prompting Susan Page and Steve Roberts to seriously question Gore's political viability.

  • Judge [Starr], I'm wondering what you think about the famous moment on the South Lawn of the White House on the day of the impeachment when Vice President Gore stepped to the lectern and said that history would remember President Clinton, in his view, as one of the greatest presidents we've ever had.

  • Le Monde of Paris led Thursday with President Jacques Chirac's warning to Saddam Hussein that time is running out for Iraq, and beneath this headline ran a front-page cartoon of the angel of death, statement in hand, approaching a lectern bearing the seal of the president of the United States.

  • The problems of binding a 3800-page book are formidable, but it can be done, and I believe that OUP customers would have been better served by being offered a one-volume edition (perhaps with a needed lectern of its own), enabling the NSOED to compete more readily with the other main contenders among large dictionaries, the MWIII and the Random House Unabridged .


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