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.
• Grief policing stems from a belief that there is a right way to behave after loss.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
• The Bloom Sox must behave as though Sale’s best days are behind him.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2022
• Is there one way to behave in these spaces of remembering?
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Nov. 2024
• Some of them behave as if the most important thing about any story is their reaction to it.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2022
• Who had taught me how to behave among the members of my Black community?
  — Tema Stauffer, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• They are then expected to go to school, get along with others and behave without consideration of their trauma.
  — Roxanne De La Rosa, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
• Austin suspected something was wrong, as Mercury wasn't behaving like himself.
  — Makena Gera, People.com, 24 Nov. 2024
• Freezing gelatin salad is generally not recommended due to how gelatin behaves in the freezing process.
  — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2024
• Both state parties are behaving accordingly, hitting the ground this weekend with public events to rile up their supporters.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2024
• Sometimes our loved ones may behave in a manner that is unethical and/or potentially harmful.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• Mojang isn’t the only gaming studio to behave cautiously around the future of NFTs and gaming.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 21 July 2022
• Simply put, different people and groups behave differently.
  — Kareem Saleh, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• Donald wanted to bring the company's various brands together to behave like a federation — to share practices and strengthen the company as a whole.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 31 July 2022
• Their work also suggests the rock rotates completely about once an hour, which aligns with how a large celestial body should behave after being knocked off the moon or another object by a violent collision.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Nov. 2024
• In fact, however, as the box below (drawn from Fidelity’s website) emphasizes, bonds often, but not always behave differently than stocks.
  — Rick Miller, Forbes, 12 Aug. 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
• 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
• But such data can, at best, offer hints about how the rest of the number line might behave.
  — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024