behold

As we reach peak jellyfish season in Scotland, should we see them as a sight to behold or a reason to run?

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Societies across the world valued gold as a symbol of divinity, immortality, and authority; its rarity made it a special privilege to behold and possess.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

“So low and behold, this is going to be a really good business for us,” Zinsner added, according to a transcript.

From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026

Lift up your eyes unto the hills, and behold all that delightful emptiness.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

And that mission doctor at Kikongo must have found Father a sight to behold: a wild-haired preacher with a snake in his belly.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

“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

This experience is reciprocal: the religious believer beholds the deity and is beheld by the deity in turn.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

Two-thirds into “Drifts” the narrator realizes she is pregnant, and as she beholds her “exquisitely tender and changing body” her diction stoops slightly into the hackneyed.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2020

On the other hand, she receives great kindness and hospitality from nomadic families and beholds, with awe, pristine landscapes and spectacular, star-spangled night skies.

From Washington Post ● May 23, 2019

Again, they are like vapours in high altitudes, upon which, if a man's shadow falls, he beholds himself as a giant.

From The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Maitland, Edward

I got there on a balmy afternoon, beheld Chicken Boy’s beak gleaming in the sun, and knew my mission was complete.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

At least, it did until very recently, when we fully beheld the wretched manifestations of Meta’s desperate A.I. push.

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2025

She hiked uphill from her riverside worksite and beheld a vista of sheer mountain slopes unbroken by rivers or streams.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024

It remains firmly planted in our hearts, just as it was in the hearts of the shepherds when they first beheld the baby in the manger.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

Now onto the trail on all fours scampered a half-grown bear cub, round furry ears pricked and small deep-set eyes alight with curiosity in the sharp little face as he beheld the old dog.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

There is a particular thrill in beholding a portrait as old and as lifelike as Isidora’s, just over a foot in height and 6 inches wide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

“The Times posed the question, ‘Will Swift ever voluntarily step away from the spotlight?’ as if beholding a woman in full flow and power invariably summoned the fantasy of her involuntary removal from the scene.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

Still, while beholding this inspiring mobilization, a basic question kept nagging at me: How do you even get tens of thousands of people in one Zoom call, let alone 100,000?

From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2024

Allison meets Viktor when she returns and, upon beholding his true presentation, chastises herself for not realizing it all along.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2022

“He looks as skinny as a rail,” Regina said upon beholding her famous son, and she almost burst into tears.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady