are lecturing
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present progressiveof lecture.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
lecturenouna speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject.
Example Sentences
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In class, my laptop stays open, ready to take notes while the professors are lecturing.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2023
Their hands are almost always in motion when they are lecturing or discussing ideas, as if they were rotating and examining a magical crystal ball in space.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 7, 2019
"You are lecturing us, and besides I doubt if the people would consider us their just representatives."
From Time Magazine Archive
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They are lecturing in the schools in their cities on important topics relative to the care of school buildings and school children.
Young men of small means, and who can afford to waste little time in the amusements of university life, go at once where the more celebrated professors in their particular line of work are lecturing.
From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier