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The Hutchinson Himalayas are a site to behold — a mile-long museum of municipal neglect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

“So low and behold, this is going to be a really good business for us,” Zinsner added, according to a transcript.

From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026

Savouring the fruits of his labour is a prospect that should excite Lampard; the crowd at their first home game back in the big time a sight to behold.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

Or behold their prototypes displayed in a museum behind glass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

“She was thought to be unique. Fairy connoisseurs travel from all corners of the globe to behold her.”

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

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

In the Phaedrus, Plato describes the soul sprouting and growing wings when it beholds something beautiful.

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

In the aria, Sara, Duchess of Nottingham, is hiding her tears from everyone but the audience as she beholds in the tragic tale of the Fair Rosamund a reflection of her own lovelorn grief.

From Washington Post ● May 6, 2021

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 Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

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

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

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

Aragorn looked and beheld a bent figure moving slowly.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

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

Her frantic joy at beholding me again moved me much.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë