behold

Ugly as this story gets, the result is beautiful to behold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The uprising is a sight to behold, and this summer I went to Albania and beheld it.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

But in that 1967 episode, when she was still an unknown, the only glimmer to behold was embroidered on the host’s jacket.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Our critic raved that “Both indoors and out, Porter proved that there was beauty where one was inclined to behold it. This show is an invaluable opportunity to do just that.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

When weariness sets in, a writer’s ability to behold an entire branch of the tree can deteriorate.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Arriving at the high point of the journey, elevation-wise, Ms. Kessler beholds the Cruz de Ferro, an iron cross regarded as an important source of spiritual uplift.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

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

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

Into the space once taken up by monthly pains and forbidden longings arrive mystical visions in which she beholds the Virgin Mary, first as virgin and then as mother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2021

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

As in mid-ocean the sailor beholds the sea bounded only by the sky, so here they beheld only ice, which stretched away to the horizon on every side—truly a sea of ice.

From North-Pole Voyages by Zachariah Atwell Mudge

The uprising is a sight to behold, and this summer I went to Albania and beheld it.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

But ordinary Russians beheld the Lockshins’ bright, hopeful faces on the news with disbelief and derision.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2024

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

I beheld Richard Parker from the angle that showed him off to greatest effect: from the back, half­ raised, with his head turned.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

In the context of the story, the narrator is describing his descent into insanity after beholding the most grotesque, ungodly beast in existence.

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2025

These products have been verified compliant with modern standards for beholding eclipses.

From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2024

“And I was beholding it in a Starbucks.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

No words can tell the agitation of my spirits occasioned by merely the thought of throwing open that portal and beholding the secrets of the gloomy closet within.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson