lectern
Example Sentences
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Maggie looked “nervous” as she crossed the stage to the wood lectern, noticeably trembling.
From Literature
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One of these, a sinuous swirl of foliage at the base of the cathedral’s great lectern, tells us what the Art Nouveau architects of a later generation were looking at.
Staff hastily arranged emergency kits and hard hats as props around the lectern ahead of her remarks on the shooting.
He appears mentally unstable and physically feeble, clinging to his lectern as if it were a walker.
From Salon
Charred furniture, lecterns and smoky curls of carpet are piled around the entrance - its guts emptied, and debris cleared, in time for Friday prayers.
From BBC
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