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lo and be·hold
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Lo and Behold
"Lo and behold" is a phrase used to express wonder or surprise.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of lo and behold in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of lo and behold in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of lo and behold in a Sentence
Well, lo and behold, kids in the neighborhood found out there was a 'parent-free zone' and it all ended up in disaster.
We were just coming down for a beach walk -- we come down here quite a bit -- and lo and behold there's a chopper on the beach, we thought maybe it was a movie shot or a movie set or something like that.
But it is much harder to get an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) or a machine gun or the boring things like spare parts for the above. You actually need to have a proper war for these sorts of things to become available and, lo and behold, you have a proper war, at the moment you have, from the criminals' point of view, a wonderful opportunity.
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
Amazon dares to dictate to us whether our government can even talk to us about what these deals are as they are unfolding. They made the state sign a secrecy agreement. Lo and behold, when the agreement becomes known it's horrible.
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