Lecturing
[lektʃərɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lecture
Edited by Denny
Examples
- We love to hear them at it, after they have been lecturing us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He held it up and tapped on it with his long, thin fore-finger, as a professor might who was lecturing on a bone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I heard him, too, in the warm evenings, lecturing with open doors, and his name, with anecdotes of him, resounded in ones ears from all sides. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Becky was just lecturing Mrs. Osborne upon the follies which her husband was committing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then, she went on, addressing herself to Robert Jordan now as though she were speaking to a classroom; almost as though she were lecturing. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Typist: Tabitha