- 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
This experience is reciprocal: the religious believer beholds the deity and is beheld by the deity in turn.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
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
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
With ten thousand eyes he beholds the man who hates and deceives him.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker
