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
• Think of these public places as a Greater L.A. field guide to all the ways that a person might look and behave.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 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
• One of the areas that doesn’t align with his driving style is how the car behaves when attacking.
  — Madeline Coleman, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
• Rourke's confrontation with Siwa came just days after the actor was called out for behaving inappropriately toward host AJ Odudu while entering the house.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 13 Apr. 2025
• The males that lived near busy roadways behaved more aggressively than those living farther away by approaching the speaker closely and repeatedly swooping low over it, probably in search of the intruder.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025