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.
• But behave yourself—the walls to the cabin aren’t a mile high.
  — Passport By Forbeslife, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
• Nance agreed to let Buckley teach Fluffy a few things about how to behave.
  — Longreads, 8 Mar. 2023
• Those who used to encourage me had started to behave the opposite way.
  — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2023
• Geologists now know the continents float buoyantly on the hot rocks in Earth’s mantle, which behave like a thick ooze.
  — Byhannah Richter, science.org, 7 Aug. 2024
• These measurements then allow scientists to extrapolate how a full warhead might behave.
  — WIRED, 10 Mar. 2023
• Still, the physical reason why CO2 behaves this way has remained a mystery, until recently.
  — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
• Pedro Pascal’s Joel behaved in a way that was very easy to empathize with, but definitely was not for the betterment of humanity.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2023
• But its implosion did set off a wave of concern, not just about the banking sector, but about how venture capital firms behave in Silicon Valley.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2023
• With Shafik gone, Columbia has an opportunity to behave like an elite American college, but it will not be guaranteed.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Aug. 2024
• In short, that means telling the chatbot to behave in a way it has been told not to.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2023
• And in the pre-hat era, a shape would invariably behave in one of two ways.
  — Craig S. Kaplan, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
• One of the reasons people behaved so badly, of course, was the color of their skin.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The issue is that bitcoin has behaved as a safe haven before.
  — Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 7 Aug. 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
• Is that skin going to be more likely to behave badly with surgery?
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 12 Aug. 2024
• All this time on water has given him a ton of insight into how bass behave around the spawn.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 21 Mar. 2024
• One of the big risks here is phantom commands that cause the satellites to behave anomalously.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 May 2024
• For more on how to behave on a flight, check out our 52 definitive rules of flying.
  — Hannah Sampson, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
• People don’t know how to behave in the office anymore, bosses say.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• The reason for this, according to Meehan, is due to the composition of breast milk as well as how cannabis behaves in the body.
  — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 10 May 2024
• The pigs also behaved normally, though pigs that took the pills were less active after meals.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
• By no means are dogs the only family pets that behave this way either.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024