- present tense form of behold (3rd person singular).
beholds
Example Sentences
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“For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
In the Phaedrus, Plato describes the soul sprouting and growing wings when it beholds something beautiful.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
“Whenever there is no desire, one beholds the mystery,” Lao Tzu wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2020
On the other hand, she receives great kindness and hospitality from nomadic families and beholds, with awe, pristine landscapes and spectacular, star-spangled night skies.
From Washington Post ● May 23, 2019
As in mid-ocean the sailor beholds the sea bounded only by the sky, so here they beheld only ice, which stretched away to the horizon on every side—truly a sea of ice.
From North-Pole Voyages by Zachariah Atwell Mudge
