lecture hall
noun
: a room specially designed for lectures : auditorium
We all took our seats in the lecture hall.
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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.
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Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
Tensions at the University of California, Irvine campus escalated Wednesday as a group of several hundred pro-Palestinian protesters entered a lecture hall and surrounded the building, according to school officials.
—Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 15 May 2024
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
On the first day of the fall 2009 semester, dozens of University of Virginia students trickled into a lecture hall for a Calculus III course, dividing their focus between partial derivatives and multiple integrals.
—Byjasmine Li, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2024
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
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
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
Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
Tensions at the University of California, Irvine campus escalated Wednesday as a group of several hundred pro-Palestinian protesters entered a lecture hall and surrounded the building, according to school officials.
—Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 15 May 2024
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
On the first day of the fall 2009 semester, dozens of University of Virginia students trickled into a lecture hall for a Calculus III course, dividing their focus between partial derivatives and multiple integrals.
—Byjasmine Li, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2024
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
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
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
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