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.
• 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
• That’s how autocrats, on the left and the right, behave.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2022
• 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
• Humans tend to behave in a way to seek pleasure and avoid pain.
  — Kevin King, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 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
• 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
• The Met Gala was the perfect illustration of how elites expect the rest of us to behave.
  — Jack Durschlag, Fox News, 4 May 2022
• But the group’s members tended be well bred, well off, and well behaved to begin with.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• Keep pushing and don't let anybody tell you to have to behave a certain way.
  — ELLE, 12 Apr. 2022
• The Bear League and wildlife department agreed that Hank could no longer be free in the wild because of the way the animal behaved.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
• How to dress, how to walk, how to apply makeup and wear my hair, how to behave, how to return love — his way.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
• Please understand healthy adults do not behave in such a way.
  — Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 14 June 2022
• The issue is that bitcoin has behaved as a safe haven before.
  — Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2024
• Late in Season 2, Kate Wyler starts to behave like her husband.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2024
• Under the rules that the Court stands by, the Justices have behaved ethically all along.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
• Grief policing stems from a belief that there is a right way to behave after loss.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
• That’s one of my big dreams — to learn a lot about different cultures and how different cultures behave.
  — Anne Easton, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
• The mom also reminds him to make sure passengers are wearing their seatbelts and behaving themselves.
  — Angela Andaloro, People.com, 10 Mar. 2025