lecture
noun
a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject.
had been lecturing
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past perfect progressiveof lecture.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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He was a psychologist from the University of Minnesota Medical School who had been lecturing around the country on what he called “positive approaches to dying.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 15, 2016
While the professors had been lecturing about post-apocalyptic culture, some of the 230 or so freshmen in the auditorium had been having a separate conversation about them on a social media site called Yik Yak.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2015
Someone was going about telling people that I had been lecturing at Columbia University .
From Time Magazine Archive
They were all aware, then, he said, that since his return from America, Mr. George Thompson had been lecturing in various parts of the kingdom.
From Discussion on American Slavery by Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge
Some years ago the celebrated Edward Irving had been lecturing at Dumfries, and a man who passed as a wag in that locality had been to hear him.
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay
