lecture
noun
a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject.
am lecturing
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present progressiveof lecture (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"Betty, I do not wish you to think I am lecturing you," said the Colonel's wife.
From Betty Zane by Zane Grey
I find I am lecturing and censuring you.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London
So he made provision To give his brain and body for this cause, And here's his brain and skull, and I am lecturing On Jacob Groesbell as a paranoic.
From Toward the Gulf by Edgar Lee Masters
I am lecturing before a summer school in Pepperel, New Hampshire....
From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
I am lecturing on ethics to one who behaves in a disorderly and discourteous manner.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
