Example sentences for: behold

How can you use “behold” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He also cites the New Testament passage in Matthew 1:22-23 which speaks of Jesus as the fulfillment of this passage from Isaiah: “Behold a virgin shall be with child.

  • "low" and behold : William Safire laments the end of an era in his "On Language" column in the NYT Magazine . In the latest edition of the New York Times Manual of Style and Usage , the guide for writers and editors of the lauded paper, the capital letter has been taken down a peg.

  • "The media frenzy in Washington has been extraordinary to behold: there can be no rational discussion about the great policy issues so long as this lasts."

  • Erected over an older Byzantine-style castle, the present 14th- to 15th-century Flamboyant Gothic building fronts the Piazzetta and the basin, the first building to behold upon arrival in Venice.

  • Walcott twins Clare--who was driven mad by social injustice and consoled by the smallest beings in nature--with mad Tom, Edgar's disguise in King Lear , who, like Clare, wanders the English countryside praising frogs and gnats: "I am moved like you, mad Tom, by a line of ants;/ I behold their industry and they are giants."


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