Example sentences for: behold

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

  • His performance on election night last November, and again after Tuesday's State of the Union Address, was painful to behold.

  • The task of decrypting these data stymies the most brilliant minds on earth, but when the puzzle is finally solved the scientists behold a set of blueprints for building a highly unconventional space transport.

  • Thus, we have Swedish Count Axel Oxenstierna writing in the 17 th century, "Behold, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed."

  • Brazilians, for instance, with their mestizo consciousness and their many gradations of tipo , or "type," behold with disdain our crude bifurcation of race.

  • "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.


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