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.

  • 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."

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

  • Matthew 1:22-23, in the New Testament, describes the birth of Jesus, referring it back to Isaish, saying, “Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son.

  • 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.


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