behold

It’s wonderful to behold their many primitive-looking screens, buttons, dials and keyboards, and know that these same tools were responsible for the safety of the astronauts as they blasted into the unknown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Lo and behold, many are now slashing tuition for graduate programs in response to the new caps on student borrowing instituted by last year’s tax bill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

With AI images bleeding into the real world at a pace none of us can keep up with, there’s human marvel to behold in Anderson’s madness.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

She lowered the bowl, only to behold — rising above its rim like the morning sun — Grover.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

“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

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

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

He who by rapine desires the things that he beholds with his eyes without, is a kite, not a dove at his windows.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric

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

Now they beheld more than they experienced, observing how it was a lot like Shanghai, only newer.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

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

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

Her frantic joy at beholding me again moved me much.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë