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
Then she could not help giving a little cry, for it seemed that she was beholding a miracle.
From The Heather-Moon by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
He was doing a conjuring trick with some household utensils, and the family, now won over to him without exception, was beholding him with worshipful admiration.
From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
