Sentence examples for rostrum and from inspiring English sources

Barkesdale stepped up to the rostrum and delivered his own speech.

I wanted to go to the rostrum and ask, "I've got this itchy rash under my arm.

"If it had been the other way round, with Donna on the rostrum and me fourth, I'd still be pleased.

Deep inside me, though, was now a dread of standing on a rostrum, and I began running slower and slower.

As Bebra the dwarf warns Oskar, "Always take care to be sitting on the rostrum and never to be standing out in front of it".

One Sunday, he brought a full box of press clippings to the rostrum and complained bitterly about the lies and the calumnies of the reporters.

"It was not the climate for getting up on a public rostrum and lecturing people on the racial issue," recalled Frank A. Rose, then the university president.

There is no better way to win the sympathy of a Labour conference crowd than to march to the rostrum and say: "I'm a first-time speaker".

Democrats sneaked into the Senate chamber shortly after noon, seizing control of the rostrum and locking Republicans out of the room.

He seemed to be drawing on bottomless reservoirs of physical and mental strength to make the short journey to the rostrum and the Presidency.

"He polemicizes well, but silently avoids the main point: why he seized the rostrum and considered it his own," he wrote.