Sentence examples for Behold from inspiring English sources
The word "behold" is correct and usable in written English
It is often used to draw attention to something and can be used at the beginning of a sentence or phrase. Example: Behold, the beauty of nature!
verb
To see, or to look at.
The difficulty is that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and you cannot behold a politician's face without a veil of extraneous prejudice getting in the way.
By the end of a trip, my own stench really is something to behold.
You can ladle all the meaning on to it you like – and the sight and sound of middle England collectively losing its marbles for a Somali-born, west London-raised man of the people was something to behold – but at its core this was simply an imperious sporting feat.
Behold this totally unstaged photo of his fridge.
Like those marks who pick Gonzaga to go to the Final Four every year because they're "due", we never break the cycle because we can never acknowledge the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves – our passions, our prejudices, our inability to behold the entire thing as the crapshoot it is.
For, at times, it was lovely to behold and ought also to scare the bejesus out of every professional politician in Scotland.
Writing in his journal about the strange celestial events of 13 November 1833, Prophet Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, described how he was awakened at 4am by a fellow clergyman "calling me to arise and behold the signs in the heavens".
The ferocity, not least of language emanating from stands and terraces, is quite something to behold.
Lo and behold, inside the bags that she has filled for me are those exact wardrobe failings – a sharp black blazer, an array of simple white shirts and a mass of cashmere scarves, alongside some of Valentine's personal selection of French chic props.
And lo-and-behold, with a puff of smoke, the tape turned to cinders.
Yet how honest, in contrast, they are about mortality itself.The commonest of all graveyard sentiments, for centuries until about 1850, was some variant of this memento mori Behold the place wherein I lyeFor as thou art sometyme was IAnd as I am so shalt thou beFrom lyfe to death follow meSo runs the memorial brass of Ioane Day in the splendid flint-walled church of Clavering, Essex.
