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How to use behold in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, interjection

Behold means to look at or see (someone or something), especially appreciatively; to descry, to look upon. Example: “Lo and behold.”

Examples of behold by meaning

verbTo look.

  • Lo and behold.

More sentences with behold

  • And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.From the entry Cephas
  • Come, come, truly see what mortal man behold, the mother of beauty to them all bestole.2018, Edgar Beaumont, Teleportkinesis. From the entry besteal
  • What I beheld before me, I thought, was the very eidolon of the storm.2012 May 31, Smapti, “Lord Blackwood and the Great Tarasque Hunt of '83”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2024. From the entry eidolon
  • On that note, this atoneness is what Jesus meant when he said, “Woman, behold thy son!2010, Allen George, A Christian Theology of the Cross. From the entry atoneness
  • Then I beheld thrones and those who sat upon them, and judgment was granted to them.2003 [around 100 CE], “Chapter Twenty”, in Mark B. Arey, Philemon D. Sevastiades, transl., edited by Patra McSharry Sevastiades…. From the entry charagma
  • After coddling clients, retrieving luggage, and fighting traffic, he beheld sweet, nagless me.2001, Jan Marshall, Still Hanging in There. From the entry nagless
  • Nowadays they're a bunch of wannabe badasses, but back in the day they were something to behold.1998, Jason Flores-Williams, chapter 6, in The Last Stand of Mr America, San Francisco, Calif.: Caught Inside Press, →OCLC; republished…. From the entry badass
  • You take a sentence fragment, quine it, and lo and behold, you've made a sentence!1979, Douglas R[ichard] Hofstadter, “Air on G’s String”, in Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books…. From the entry quine
  • She ran to the door and there beheld the ragged street urchin calmly playing his organ.1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 84. From the entry street urchin
  • And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 23. From the entry gore
  • For Ann and her officers were indeed a sight to behold.1914, L. Frank Baum, chapter 21, in Tik-Tok of Oz. From the entry sight to behold
  • Thus it was that I beheld, as never before, the awful unreality called evil.1906, Mary Baker Eddy, “Chapter VI — Science, Theology, Medicine”, in Science and Health with Key to the…. From the entry equipollence
  • A little easier to behold without developing a migraine.2025 May 13, Edwin Evans-Thirlwell, “Soulframe keeps growing with new RPG customisation, a dungeon inspired by Blue Prince and a wizard's…. From the entry Warframer
  • Beholding his waddlesome approach out of the tail of her eye, the white animal would whinny a dignified and conservative welcome.2021, Irvin S. Cobb, Old Judge Priest. From the entry waddlesome
  • But we’re not very pleasing to behold.2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times. From the entry unbecoming
  • The beauty of the horizon's distant interstitial line in turn inaccurately replicates the beholding implied by Winnicottian nearliness.2014, Mikko Tuhkanen, Leo Bersani: Queer Theory and Beyond. From the entry nearliness
  • In fact, he was amazing to behold.2011, Maggie Kozel, The Color of Atmosphere: One Doctor's Journey In and Out of Medicine, Chelsea Green Publishing, published 2011, →ISBN…. From the entry circ
  • BEHOLD: A WARM, WINSOME, FETCHINGLY BEPANTIED WENCH DOES BEKITTEN HER FIRM-FLESHED FORM ATOP THE POOR FOOL’S HAPLESS LAP.2008, Adam Warren, “Bemused, Bekittened, and Bepantied”, in Empowered Omnibus, volume 2, Milwaukie, Ore.: Dark Horse Books, published…. From the entry bepantied
  • Lo and behold, at seven forty, another strapping male was emancipated, about as easily as pouring water out of a boot.2006, Mike Gaddis, Zip Zap. From the entry looksome
  • Here the viewer gets the rare opportunity to behold at rest the two central bacchanalists of Party Party.2001, James F. Bloch, Sam Karres, Urban Expressionist, page 53. From the entry bacchanalist
  • When I looked up, I beheld an apparition, as if summoned by my thoughts, for I immediately recognised a Time Travelleress!1995 September 15, Lucy Sussex, “A fit future for women with vision”, in The Age, 141st year, number 43,773, Melbourne, Vic., page 12…. From the entry travelleress
  • A fine and comforting thing it doubtless is every year to behold, as we are beholding now under Mr.1981, International Labor Conference Record of Proceedings, pages 15-5. From the entry amphitryon
  • Her boilers needed cleaning, too, and behold the opportunity.1969, George Allan England, The greatest hunt in the world. From the entry airsome
  • Massoud was not fair to behold, there in the dimness.1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib. From the entry belook
  • Last, behold on Juss’s right hand, yon lord that bulks mighty as Hercules yet steppeth lightly as a heifer.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 6. From the entry bulk
  • The Salempenta lizard of Guiana, which is amphibious and unpleasant to behold, is a favourite dish of the Indians.1922, Chambers’s Journal, volume XCIX, part 139, London; Edinburgh: W[illiam] & R[obert] Chambers […], →OCLC, page 421, column 1. From the entry salipenter
  • BEHOLD—ye oldest and most faithfulest of the alumnuses.1921, Ohio State University Monthly, volume 12, number 6, page 25. From the entry alumnuses
  • Wide went her eyes in wonder and incredulity, as she beheld this seeming apparition risen from the dead.1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 24, in Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. From the entry incredulity
  • Behold ye to the northeast the glorious monsterful sea!1915 -, Kuno Meyer, Miscellanea Hibernica - Volumes 1-2, page 592. From the entry monsterful
  • Now in their hearts those wildered Trojans said That once more they beheld Achilles' self Gigantic in his armour.1913, Smyrnaeus Quintus, The Fall of Troy. From the entry wilder
  • Lo and behold, the Skrull throneworld was summarily destroyed by the planet-eating Galactus, and Veranke assumed the throne by right of succession.2015, Dan Casey, 100 Things Avengers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, →ISBN. From the entry throneworld
  • They worked completely in unison, doubling the parts in a mirror-like fashion that was a sight to behold and a sound to behear.2012, Alan Goldsher, Modest Mouse. From the entry behear
  • To appease her, I gladly demanded less extensive attestations of her proficiency, and, lo and behold, by showing such considerateness, I gradually won her back.ante 1956, Robert Walser quoted in: George C. Avery, Inquiry and Testament: A Study of the Novels and Short Prose of Robert Walser (1968…. From the entry objectress
  • I now rejoice to behold it couth, kempt, gainly, hevelled and sightly, though much aggrieved over some spottings which I did not find delible.1943, Autocar, page 765. From the entry hevelled
  • And behold, I was not in a cellar, but in a bedroom, a great rich garish bedroom, coloured blood red from top to bottom.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter II, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz…. From the entry electrolier
  • At mountain resorts it happens not infrequently that one beholds such a pair driving before them a numerous progeny all properly behorsed.1925, William George Langworthy Taylor, The Saddle Horse, page 245. From the entry behorsed
  • Behold the triumph of hypnotic mystification by the might of which the vacuous become profound and the flabby-willed nerve-wreck a heroine of dauntless faith!1911, The Literary Digest - Volume 42, page 684. From the entry nerve-wreck
  • He suddenly sprang to his feet, lifted his hands on high, and exclaimed, in affrightened tone: "O ye gods, what do I behold!1907, Erasmus W. Jones, The Young Captives. From the entry affrightened
  • What they beheld was not a propagandum: it was John Kendry’s idea of how actually he best might make himself glad that he had lived.1907, Chester Bailey Fernald, “The Desert of Doubt”, in John Kendry’s Idea, New York, N.Y.: The Outing Publishing Company, page 215. From the entry propagandum

Meaning of behold

  1. verb To look at or see (someone or something), especially appreciatively; to descry, to look upon.
  2. verb To contemplate (someone or something).
  3. verb To look.

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Questions about behold in a sentence

How do you use behold in a sentence?
Behold is used as a verb and interjection. For example: “Lo and behold.”
What is a short sentence with behold?
“Lo and behold.”
What does behold mean?
Behold means to look at or see (someone or something), especially appreciatively; to descry, to look upon.

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