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For sheer spectacle, behold the first physical build of General Grievous’ Wheel Bike, an invention previously only realized in CGI but built specifically for the museum at Lucas’ request.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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

The Ming dynasty floating-crab cup is a marvel to behold.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

Perhaps they were like the modem ones, which say that Still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

Theologically speaking, pride turns itself inward; it beholds the self and deems it sufficient.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2018

Nor is the carman crushed beneath the wheels: on the contrary, he is represented as standing upright and wringing his hands in despair at what he beholds.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce

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

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

At 18, he was performing in the North Shields pub where he also worked when the guy who’s now his manager walked in and beheld a star in the making.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 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

When we first beheld our most important Wolf-Rayet target, a star designated WR 104, on a computer monitor, it was a shimmering spiral that resembled a weirdly distorted Christmas bauble.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023

Through the wall of Champions, guards, and their weapons, Celaena beheld Chaol kneeling by the unconscious guard.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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

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

This strange association of items creates the sensation of beholding the remains of a scientific experiment, seen through a magnifying lens.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023

Standing in one of these bathrooms you realize that you are beholding a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2022

Sunshine, in fact, bathed the entire afghan, and the play of warm, brilliant light in the pale-blue wool was in itself well worth beholding.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger