lecture
noun
a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject.
had lectured
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past perfectof lecture.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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If someone had lectured Jak Howells about the risks of sunburn a few years ago those warnings would likely have fallen on deaf - and probably sunburnt - ears.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025
They pointed fingers at what they cast as overpaid consultants, expressed despair that working-class voters of all stripes had abandoned them, and lamented that they had lectured voters instead of listening to them.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2024
He had lectured in the university’s philosophy department until being put on “investigatory leave” last year.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
Paradoxically, he adds, Mr. Snowden now “found himself in precisely the kind of hostile environment he had lectured on, surrounded by agents from a foreign intelligence agency.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2014
All his life he had lectured everybody about the right way to do things and now he had done this, the stupidest thing ever.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
