How to Use misbehave in a Sentence

misbehave

verb

• If someone in a group of friends misbehaves, the friendship is not good enough.
  — Egor Kirin, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• One reason is that some cat owners do like it when their cats misbehave.
  — Julia Métraux, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
• The show was geared around portraying her in a positive light and most of the cast knew that their role was to misbehave a little bit, but not too much.
  — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2023
• That perhaps the cult of the maestro in some way contributed to their ability to misbehave?
  — Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2021
• The Ruths, like most Americans at that time, trusted that the school would make a difference for the boy who was misbehaving — or at least keep him off the street.
  — Ed Martin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
• Parents, in turn, will be relieved of some of the stress of having a misbehaving child around child-free passengers.
  — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Aug. 2023
• That flight was scuttled by a misbehaving valve on the Atlas V rocket.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 5 June 2024
• Did Sandoval start a disease that is now infecting all men, leading them to misbehave in ways big and small?
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 26 July 2023
• And of course, no sooner have Maddie and Percy gotten their hair wet than some misbehaving teens show up and steal their clothes.
  — Vulture, 30 June 2023
• The teachers at the school also noticed that the lack of fun activities caused children to misbehave.
  — Steve Smith, courant.com, 10 June 2021
• As long as new products are launched, and celebrities and politicians misbehave, the industry will live on—albeit in new forms.
  — Nancy A Shenker, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• But for people with other diseases, the reason tau starts to misbehave is still unknown.
  — Sara Harrison, Wired, 26 Jan. 2022
• But an incentive to misbehave is not the same as proof of misbehavior.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 10 Apr. 2021
• Teachers have come to me if any players are misbehaving.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• The decision to ban visitors from these blocks comes as the city has dealt with overcrowding and misbehaving tourists, the AP noted.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2024
• The question of whether or not muons really are misbehaving remains an open one.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
• Students who misbehave, like the group of boys who got into a fight at recess, are also sent to Belcastro’s office.
  — Ariel Gilreath, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2024
• And when large language models do misbehave or go off the rails, nobody can really explain why.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 21 May 2024
• The code, which is voluntary for now, says AI should not discriminate; should not be used in ways that pose safety risks; and that end users can choose to opt out if AI systems misbehave.
  — Will Knight, Wired, 21 Jan. 2021
• Scott’s history of encouraging fans to misbehave is once again in the spotlight.
  — Erik Larson, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2021
• That has led to complaints that passengers who misbehave on one flight can simply fly on another.
  — Lori Aratani, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2022
• Fussing at animals who misbehave is part of his daily life on a farm in McCalla, about 20 miles southwest of Birmingham.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 28 Feb. 2023
• The latest developments in the ongoing tribal dispute come on the heels of the backlash Noem faced for writing about killing a hunting dog that misbehaved in her latest book.
  — CBS News, 13 May 2024
• How will his proposal to put a black mark on the school record of children found to have misbehaved do anything other than bar them from access to higher education?
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 5 May 2024
• The teacher said some of her own students misbehave whether parents are present or not and sometimes act whinier when parents are present during a virtual lesson.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2020
• After the teen continued to misbehave, the child said Edwards produced a handgun and fired into the front door window, according to the affidavit.
  — Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2023
• The bills do, however, allow amusement park operators to eject patrons who misbehave while on the rides.
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 3 May 2023
• About a month into the school year, Cook left Lindsey a voice message complaining that her son fails to speak appropriately to adults and wanted to know whether the boy is allowed to misbehave at home.
  — Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
• Naturally, the series picks up once the exposition is out of the way, and characters can just start behaving, or misbehaving as the case may be.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• If anything, that shows that there can be reasonable rule of law in a country even when administrations sometimes misbehave.
  — Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2014

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024