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lecturing

[ UK /lˈɛkt‍ʃəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɛktʃɝɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)

How To Use lecturing In A Sentence

  • A pause in lecturing, consequent upon our mid-year examinations having begun, has given me a little respite, and I am paying a three days 'visit upon an old friend here, meaning to leave for New York to-morrow, where I have a couple of lectures to give. Familiar Letters of William James II
  • Rather than be seen as lecturing China on its exchange rate, the United States should be doing even more to push its European allies to allow a larger Chinese voice in multilateral forums. Beyond brinkmanship: A better economic path for the U.S. and China
  • Little we thought he should ever own it, or that John would be pointing it out to his own boys, lecturing them on "undershot," and "overshot," as he used to lecture me. John Halifax, Gentleman
  • He watched the poor wretch the commanding officer was lecturing, and looked on him with little pity.
  • And because Colonel Morse had advised him that he would be lecturing to “huge audiences in vast auditoria,” in the weeks before his departure, Oscar engaged the services of an expensive expert on oratory to give him elocution lessons. Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile
  • The government is fond of lecturing others about lapses in competence. Times, Sunday Times
  • These include working with a large global consultancy group and guest lecturing at a number of business schools. Times, Sunday Times
  • We do not know how much he made lecturing the rest of us heathens on morality.
  • Up to that point he has held himself aloof, the professor lecturing on abstractions.
  • The occasion was the opening-night dinner of Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women Summit, a three-day estrogen-flavored wonkfest: Geena Davis lecturing the female execs and entrepreneurs on gender in media, Melody Barnes and Michelle Rhee holding forth on education, Trudie Styler teaching 6 a.m. yoga. Nora Ephron tries to draw out Nancy Pelosi at Fortune's "Most Powerful Women Summit"
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