How to Use behave in a Sentence

behave

verb

• If you can't behave in the store we'll have to leave.
• He behaves like a child!
• If you can't behave yourself in the store we'll have to leave.
• I wish those children would behave themselves.
• The experiment tested how various metals behave under heat and pressure.
• Please understand healthy adults do not behave in such a way.
  — Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 14 June 2022
• And, anyway, we weren’t allowed to behave that way with customers.
  — Souvankham Thammavongsa, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
• There’s a barrier based on this long-standing idea of behavior, how you’re supposed to behave in church.
  — Sophy Chaffee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2022
• Second, model makers still can and do effectively shape in all sorts of ways how their chatbots behave.
  — Jonathan L. Zittrain, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
• Are children on the plane or at the airport in 2024 any more poorly behaved than those traveling a decade or two ago?
  — Jason D. Seacat, Hartford Courant, 20 Dec. 2024
• The set-up was closely modelled on Zimbardo's study, although the guards were not coached on how to behave towards the inmates.
  — Tess Foley-Cox, theweek, 20 Dec. 2024
• This is valuable information about how each native wildflower may behave in your garden.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022
• Taylor is pretty well behaved at dinner and even defends Kacey when her mom discovers Kacey and Calvin broke up.
  — Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
• At those high temperatures, the neutrons behave like a fluid, allowing any remaining electrons and protons to wander freely.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 17 June 2022
• For instance, productive face-to-face interactions such as how to behave in meetings, one-on-ones, and interviews, and how to present to a broader audience.
  — Martha Bird, Fortune, 9 June 2022
• Of course, Martinez also points out that accurately predicting how mosquitoes behave could depend on how the virus affects them.
  — Sam Zlotnik, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2022
• Suddenly self-conscious, Leo starts to behave differently.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 26 May 2022
• July 1—15: Be careful to step aside when others behave aggressively near the 2nd and just don’t engage.
  — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 July 2022
• When Rose behaves with too much ego or boldness, her stepmother summons Rose’s father, who is initially reluctant but then gets into the spirit of things.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
• During calving and mating seasons, for example, animals may behave more aggressively.
  — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 22 June 2022
• In short, that means telling the chatbot to behave in a way it has been told not to.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2023
• But behave yourself—the walls to the cabin aren’t a mile high.
  — Passport By Forbeslife, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
• The youngsters learn how to behave in the water, and to respect it.
  — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022
• And in the pre-hat era, a shape would invariably behave in one of two ways.
  — Craig S. Kaplan, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
• Nance agreed to let Buckley teach Fluffy a few things about how to behave.
  — Longreads, 8 Mar. 2023
• The Bloom Sox must behave as though Sale’s best days are behind him.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2022
• At the same time, don't be surprised if kids laugh, play and want to behave like normal.
  — Zulekha Nathoo, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2022
• One of the reasons people behaved so badly, of course, was the color of their skin.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
• The best that researchers could do was lay down a long list of rules defining how a bot should behave.
  — Cade Metz, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023
• The third source of weight has to do with Toyota's view of how a Toyota showcase should behave.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 16 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025