behold
verb (used with object)
to observe; look at; see.
are beholding
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present progressiveof behold.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Standing in one of these bathrooms you realize that you are beholding a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.
From Time Magazine Archive
I must bear witness to my conviction that we are beholding a tremendous inrush or uprush of good into man and his world.
From Progress and History by Francis Sydney Marvin
Surely you are beholding to the Marques, For he hath been an earnest spokes-man in your cause.
From Fair Em by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
You are beholding to Don Quixot for that, and 'tis so many Ages since thou couldst see to read, I wonder thou hast not forgot all that ever belong'd to Books.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Montague Summers
