beheld

Example Sentences

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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

Howsare argues that what Europeans beheld was the opposite of paradise — in fact “a landscape in crisis.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2023

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

I blinked more than a few times, hardly trusting what my eyes beheld before me.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan