How to Use rostrum in a Sentence

rostrum

noun

• The president, in his gray suit and pocket square, took his place on the rostrum.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2021
• The Pinocchio frog is just one of a handful of New Guinea treefrogs in the same genus that sport these spiky noses, or rostrums.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 7 June 2019
• Male Perrin’s beaked whales have their teeth near the tip of the beak, or rostrum, and the image appeared to show just that.
  — J. B. MacKinnon, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2021
• Trump will speak on a rostrum with a background of green marble.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2017
• Michael Clevenger/Courier-Journal The sign was propped up next to the rostrum.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 3 Oct. 2017
• An awestruck Wiesel, who was speaking at the rostrum, struggled for words.
  — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2018
• The weird thing about the stage set is Ringo’s [precarious] drum rostrum.
  — Lucie Young, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• This eerie, boneless creature looks like a shark with a chainsaw for a nose, called a rostrum.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
• Trump has not been shy about slamming Kim, whether on Twitter or from the rostrum of the United Nations.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
• The lifeguards noticed that the animal had blood near its rostrum, or nose.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
• McCarthy gestured to the Speaker’s rostrum and joked that Flores will soon be running the place.
  — Dallas News, 21 June 2022
• Trump stepped to the side of the rostrum, buttoned his suit jacket, and, like a mannequin in motion, returned to the microphone.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2019
• Biden will step up to the House speaker’s rostrum to address a nation in conflict with itself.
  — Calvin Woodward and Zeke Miller, chicagotribune.com, 27 Feb. 2022
• The teeth on a sawshark’s rostrum regularly fall out and grow back.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2012
• The deputy speaker and speaker pro tempore run House sessions from the rostrum when the speaker is absent.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2023
• That had been a far cry from his bellicose rhetoric, issued both on Twitter and from the rostrum of the United Nations last fall.
  — Catherine Lucey and Zeke Miller, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2018
• Members filed up to the rostrum to cast their votes, as others stood behind them and anxiously looked up at the House scoreboard.
  — Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• Prieto sat behind the speaker's rostrum, sometimes on the phone, other times looking out on the floor.
  — Dustin Racioppi , Nicholas Pugliese and Bob Jordan, USA TODAY, 1 July 2017
• Gideon put lawmakers at ease and asked Hanington to speak with her at her rostrum.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
• The Australian bottlenose dolphin, a cetacean, will wear a sea sponge on its rostrum for protection when rooting around the ocean floor.
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
• Auctioneers at the rostrum can often tell who is going to win the bidding in advance.
  — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 15 May 2014
• With Prince Phillip at her side, everyone in America’s legislative branch could hear — and see — the queen atop the House rostrum.
  — Chad Pergram | Fox News, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2022
• Their signature feature is the unusual flat paddle, or rostrum, that extends from the snout and can be half as long as the fish.
  — New York Times, 26 May 2018
• In the House, there’s a front microphone near the speaker’s rostrum where lawmakers explain their bills.
  — Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2022
• While the Democrat who presides over the senate, Fetterman, stepped away from the senate rostrum Scarnati, seized the gavel and ordered the vote to go on.
  — Tara Law, Time, 29 June 2019
• Savannah put on a tie and battled her anxiety, making her way to the rostrum.
  — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 20 June 2017
• Arriving at the rostrum Trump picks up a glass of water, holds it for a moment and then, curiously, just sets it back down.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2018
• Corcoran signed the two subpoenas on the House rostrum and announced that a process server was in his office, waiting to serve them.
  — Steve Bousquet and Emily L. Mahoney, miamiherald, 16 Jan. 2018
• Carvel’s entrance is hilarious — driving a golf cart onto the stage, before making a putt that misses the flag and sends his ball off the edge of the rostrum.
  — Demetrios Matheou, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2022
• This used to be an almost quaint affair, the gavel wielded by Simon Chase, a British authority who would don black tie to take to the rostrum.
  — Nicholas Foulkes, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024