Lecture in a sentence as a noun

Founder's wife asked Horvath out and gave her a lecture about who is the boss.

The surface pro would have been exactly what I wanted in undergrad physics for a lecture-hall machine.

"George Plya, whose lectures at ETH Zurich von Neumann attended as a student, said "Johnny was the only student I was ever afraid of.

I'm imagining Autodesk's M&A team are right now getting a lecture on what "CAM" stands for by the engineers and that there will be some facepalming.

Lecture in a sentence as a verb

Cargo Cult Education - Schools are built, students attend, teachers lecture, assignments turned in, tests taken and degrees granted.

If in the course of a lecture I stated an unsolved problem, the chances were he'd come to me at the end of the lecture with the complete solution scribbled on a slip of paper.

He gave a lecture to one of my classes about FOP and it was so inspiring to see how much progress he has made on a disease with only a handful of cases that was supposed to be impossible to cure.

Lecture definitions

noun

a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications"

See also: talk

noun

a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to"

See also: speech

noun

teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)

See also: lecturing

verb

deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"

See also: talk

verb

censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"

See also: rebuke trounce reproof reprimand scold chide berate