rostrum
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Andrew Ewbank, who runs Ewbank's and conducted the sale from the rostrum himself, told bidders he was "going for a lie down" afterwards.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Its rostrum measures approximately 10 centimeters long but reaches an extraordinary 6 centimeters in width, making it the thickest known example of its kind.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
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
A mat was brought in and rolled out in the semicircular space in front of the rostrum.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
They are best known for their distinctive, bullet-shaped internal skeletal structures, called rostra or guards, which are often the only parts of the animals that survive in the fossil record.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Instead, clerks intoned his Message from the Nation's rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is Dr. Harry F. Covington, Professor of Public Speaking and Debating, whose classes meet before the temple rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twelve thousand words long,* it was handed to clerks in the House and Senate who intoned it from the nation's rostra.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Ward asked leave to defend himself in English, and occupied one of the rostra, usually devoted to the recital of prize poems and essays.
From The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by R. W. (Richard William) Church
They suck food through strawlike beaks called rostrums.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021
There has been plenty of pomp and circumstance, and even more long-windedness, as governors from coast to coast stepped to rostrums this month to deliver their annual State of the State addresses.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2018
It's incredible how focused and single-minded you have to be, and how hard you have to train, even to think about going to the Olympics, let alone standing on any rostrums.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2010
Statesmen on public rostrums do not of course speak so plainly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Drummond would affect no style of address simply on the ground that it was usual upon certain platforms or in certain rostrums.
From Mushrooms on the Moor by Frank Boreham
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