How to Use lecture hall in a Sentence

lecture hall

noun

• The old council chamber, built in the shape of a blast furnace, was now a lecture hall.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• The war for the soul of literary studies was thus fought on two fronts: the research library and the lecture hall.
  — Evan Kindley, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
• Peirce was something of a porcupine; James was one of the smoothest, most charming people ever to stroll into a lecture hall.
  — Mark Edmundson, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
• The building, built in 132 A.D., was used as an entertainment space, lecture hall, and, yes, an actual library.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2024
• This summer, operators hope to reopen a movie theater at the ship, which can double as a lecture hall and host other events, Caloca said.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• The campus announced in a social media post that a group of protesters had entered a lecture hall, with the building takeover broadcast over Instagram.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
• In another image, children spill out of a school bus parked near a stately lecture hall, greeted by a police officer in dress uniform.
  — Curbed, 21 June 2023
• The lecture hall scene is a master class in delivering a ton of exposition in a compelling way (credit to screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan).
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
• As the seventh graders settled into a lecture hall at a school near London, the topic at hand was not human rights, historical events or different religions.
  — Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023
• Sara begins the story in a lecture hall, but she is gradually pulled from her too-comfortable routines of rumination—in her office, in the library—which have so far failed to yield any breakthroughs on her project.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
• There was the clash at a lecture hall when dozens of pro-Palestinian activists broke windows and beat on doors while protesting a speech by a former member of the Israeli Defense Forces, forcing attendees to evacuate with police protection.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 6 June 2024
• In January 2022, one person was killed and three others injured after a man opened fire on students in a lecture hall at Heidelberg University in southwestern Germany.
  — Nadine Schmidt, CNN, 11 May 2023
• The scientists had 35 university students all take part in 50-minute lectures that were held both in person in a conventional lecture hall and online via videoconferencing.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2023
• Introduction Kirby set up camp in the main lecture hall where the mathematicians gathered each morning, mostly avoiding the brainstorming sessions.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
• In January 2022, a man shot at students in a lecture hall at Heidelberg University, killing one and seriously injuring three others.
  — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023
• This last capability is popular for petty mischief, judging by the numerous videos online showing people turning off lecture hall projectors, or fast-food-restaurant menu displays.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024