- 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
In the Phaedrus, Plato describes the soul sprouting and growing wings when it beholds something beautiful.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
The performance will be conducted by Carl St.Clair and will feature Tess Altiveros as the Child who beholds the magic spells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2019
Theologically speaking, pride turns itself inward; it beholds the self and deems it sufficient.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2018
She beholds to the right and the left a quaking bog of abstractions and metaphysical definitions, whereon if a critic so much as set his foot he is sucked down into the bottomless mire.
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More
