behold
verb (used with object)
to observe; look at; see.
have beheld
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present perfectof behold.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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Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images For four and a half years our leaders have beheld the threat posed by our handful of enormous banks and averted their eyes.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013
Judgment is in the eye of the beholder, and the eyes that would have beheld Gatsby’s mansion would have belonged to the nation’s most elite subset, whose homes were equally elaborate, if not more so.
From Slate ● May 6, 2013
Over the years, many of us will have beheld certain politicians and wondered: "Do they have any idea what plonkers they are?"
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2012
Columbus deemed it "the fairest island that eyes have beheld" and listed it as Yamaye in a log entry in 1493.
From Time Magazine Archive
It moreover betrays several errors, of a kind which Baldinucci, so familiar with a more learned and severe school, would not so easily have forgiven had he happened to have beheld this picture.
From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Antonio Lanzi
