rostrum

Example Sentences

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The address will mark the first time in five years that Newsom delivers a State of the State from the Assembly rostrum.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

From the rostrum, Barker leaned in dramatically, smiled, sometimes waited.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

In November 2017, Jussi Pylkkänen, the global president of Christie’s, was on the rostrum in New York to sell Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi.”

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2023

“The people’s house is back in business,” Mr. Johnson told lawmakers in his inaugural address, delivered from the speaker’s rostrum.

From Washington Times • Oct. 25, 2023

On the rostrum, seated in three compact rows of auditorium chairs, were about twenty children, mostly girls, ranging in age from about seven to thirteen.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger