beheld

Example Sentences

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The first time I beheld the prairie, in a quest for foxes to photograph two years ago, I was drawn by a gathering of people.

From Seattle Times

I beheld America’s dream factory when it produced works of art and imagination like “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” “Gone With the Wind,” “Miracle on 34th Street” and “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

From Washington Times

Through the telescope I beheld banded Jupiter holding court with three of its glittering moons and, 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, mists of interstellar gas twining through the Tarantula Nebula.

From New York Times

Isherwood died in 1986, in a place no less strange half a century after he first beheld it.

From Los Angeles Times

Victor Gensini, an associate professor at Northern Illinois University's Department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Environment, recalled one of the more bizarre sights he has beheld in his years of studying these monstrous vortices.

From Salon