behold
verb (used with object)
to observe; look at; see.
has beheld
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present perfectof behold (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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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 ● Mar. 29, 2023
Abundant, there, are honey and wine and everything that eye has beheld; there will not come decline on thee with lapse of time; death or decay thou wilt not see.
From The Irish Fairy Book by Various
Of such books Hazlitt remarks that he 'has met in the course of a lengthened career with treasures which would make a small library, and has beheld no duplicates.'
From The Book-Hunter at Home by Allan, P. B. M.
She says to him: 275 "Open thine eyes and look at what I am Thou has beheld such things, that strong enough Hast thou become to tolerate my smile."
From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by Slattery, John T. (John Theodore)
He that has beheld the loveliness of Freydis must go henceforward as a hungry person, because of troubling memories: and his fellows deride him enviously.
From Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch
