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lectern

[ UK /lˈɛktən/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɛktɝn/ ]
NOUN
  1. desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer

How To Use lectern In A Sentence

  • We learned, Ruby and I, that this was a way of being theatrical as well as the other way, and we learned, from Carnovsky and Da Silva, that there was no difference in terms of professional standards and requirements between the actor who merely stood in front of a lectern and the actor who has the benefit of makeup and props and all of the other things. Life Lit by Some Large Vision
  • I taught from pulpit and lectern. Christianity Today
  • Designed with lightweight durability in mind, the lecterns may be moved from room to room and still look new for years to come.
  • You may decide to put a table and a lectern in front of a blank wall.
  • The dig is that he continues in that failed role behind the lectern when what we need is a true, hands on leader. Think Progress » Palin Tells Constitution-Loving Tea Partiers: We Don’t Need A President Who Is A ‘Constitutional Law Professor’
  • The seated figures are compact in scale, their chairs and lectern angled and their attributes foreshortened.
  • In one of her famously impassioned speeches - between threats to bloody noses - she blasted what she called the objectification, disrespect and "violence" toward women, slamming her fist so hard against the lectern that her bracelet shattered. NYT > Home Page
  • Through the 1950s and 60s, he carved crucifixes, lecterns and other features for churches across England and Wales.
  • Business had invaded the cloisters, where, in lieu of antiphonaries, fat ledgers lay on the lecterns.
  • They were superseded later in the Middle Ages, being replaced by a single movable lectern.
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