The phrase "addressed an assembly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone speaking formally to a group of people gathered for a specific purpose, such as a meeting or event.
Example: "The president addressed an assembly of students during the annual graduation ceremony."
Alternatives: "spoke to a gathering" or "delivered a speech to an audience."
John Smith, the principal, addressed an assembly and told the students that the school district would not tolerate any sort of racist attacks, either physical or verbal.
Paranoia sets in each time it is reported that Mark Zuckerberg has addressed an assembly of more than ten people; Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson seems to be softening his wrestler's brow into that of a candidate's.
He recalled a conversation he had in Ghana with a high-ranking jurist who wondered what was meant by the concept of "judicial independence," and a meeting in Moscow at which Boris Yeltsin, then the Russian president, addressed an assembly of judges.
Plus he was shy, nervous even when addressing an assembly of schoolchildren.
In the Shelby Knox documentary, a youth pastor, addressing an assembly of teens, defines intercourse as "what two dogs do out on the street corner they just bump and grind awhile, boom boom boom".
In the Shelby Knox documentary, a youth pastor, addressing an assembly of teens, defines intercourse as "what two dogs do out on the street corner — they just bump and grind awhile, boom boom boom".
Inspectors turned up examples of schools refusing to teach about sex, teaching only Islam in religion classes while telling the few pupils studying Christianity to do their own research, and inviting an extremist preacher to address an assembly.
Addressing an assembly of Somali businessmen one evening, he appealed for donations to pay for a list of absurdly modest projects: building a four-mile road from the livestock-inspection station to the port; replacing road signs on the lone highway, long ago stripped bare for the valuable metal; constructing a small hospital.
He had read in Carlyle of Anacharsis Clootz, who, at the head of 36 foreigners, had addressed a Paris assembly as "mankind's spokesman".
He had read in Carlyle of Anacharsis Clootz, who, at the head of 36 foreigners, had addressed a Paris assembly as "mankind's spokesman". Moved by this, don Alejandro conceived the idea of a Congress of the World that would represent all nations.
Election-year politics came to life at Flintridge Preparatory School Monday, as Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) addressed a school-wide assembly at the request of a faculty member who wanted students to gain perspective on what's become an embattled presidential race.
