lecture
noun
a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject.
was lecturing
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past progressiveof lecture.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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She began attending an evening classes in life drawing at Swansea College of Art, and it was here she met her husband, the sculptor Ronald Cour, who was lecturing there.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024
Meanwhile, the governor was lecturing against that kind of partying to the rest of us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2021
That is why, when Yang was lecturing Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III about the popularity of his regime, the only source he could cite was unspecified “opinion polls.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2021
Vashti was lecturing at the time and her earlier remarks had been punctuated with applause.
From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2021
He was lecturing me on the impermanence of memory.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
