behold
verb (used with object)
to observe; look at; see.
was beholding
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past progressiveof behold.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“And I was beholding it in a Starbucks.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
“An equivalent caliber Chippendale from Newport would be $3.5 million,” Mr. Berlin said, allowing me to realize that what I was beholding was, in fact, a kind of Hyundai of rarefied early-19th-century decorative art.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2012
At times I could not believe I was beholding full-motion rendering of Rage’s quality and speed on what is, after all, a six-year-old system.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2011
And you've a right to feel that, and not to go about as gaping and as thoughtless as if you was beholding to nobody.
From Adam Bede by Eliot, George
He knew he was beholding as rare a spectacle as ever man's eyes were blessed withal; nor was he slow to perceive the psychological interest of the situation.
From Idolatry A Romance by Hawthorne, Julian
