beheld

Example Sentences

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I once beheld Bob Seger in a dressing room eating a chocolate-chip cookie off a styrofoam plate.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 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

She turned quickly and gave a little frightened start as she beheld an enormous Lion.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers