- present tense form of behold (3rd person singular).
beholds
Example Sentences
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“For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
And in the making of “Sincerely,” which beholds her most revealing lyrics yet, authenticity was key.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
This experience is reciprocal: the religious believer beholds the deity and is beheld by the deity in turn.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Theologically speaking, pride turns itself inward; it beholds the self and deems it sufficient.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2018
"Mourn not," she said, as one who beholds a vision.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield
