behold

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

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

It was fashioned in the likeness of a snarling black hound, fearsome to behold, but Tyrion had always thought it a great improvement over Clegane's hideously burned face.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

“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

“Whenever there is desire, one beholds the manifestations.“

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2020

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 will, of which life is the mirror, and knowledge free from will, which beholds it clearly in that mirror.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

Very slowly, she opened them, whereupon she beheld an astonishing sight: Cassiopeia had all four limbs wrapped around the guard’s leg, with her teeth sunk into his trousers.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

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

“And I was beholding it in a Starbucks.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

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