beheld
Americanverb
verb
Other Word Forms
- unbeheld adjective
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
But ordinary Russians beheld the Lockshins’ bright, hopeful faces on the news with disbelief and derision.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024
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
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
Nothing could pull her mind away from the mouth Milkman was not kissing, the feet that were not running toward him, the eye that no longer beheld him, the hands that were not touching him.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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