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
"Going Up" SMITH—"Do you realize that we are beholding the completion of a great cycle in history?"
From More Toasts by Marion Dix Mosher
This is not the intention: it is a spectacle of life we are beholding; and life is action.
From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons
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
