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.
• 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
• To put it gently, economies that are in recession do not behave in this manner.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2022
• 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
• The females behave more like males, but this also reduces their life span and reproductive output.
  — Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
• That year would see Phoenix withdraw from the public eye, only to emerge the next year in an odd manner of dress and behaving strangely.
  — EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024
• The iPad is continuing to behave even more like a desktop computer.
  — Julian Chokkattu Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2022
• Name another narrative in which people behave like this, by instinct, with nothing to gain from it themselves.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 Oct. 2022
• Here’s how market strategists think Japanese assets will behave as the dust settles on Japan’s election.
  — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
• Most companies haven't fully considered the implications of how these AI agents will behave or be used.
  — Charles Towers-Clark, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
• High ticket prices not a deterrent Culture shifts and costly tickets may be affecting how people behave in public.
  — Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
• It’s the breed of choice with rodeo families because the dogs know instinctively how to behave around horses and are just another element of the jamboree.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
• Under pressures greater than at the center of the Earth, hydrogen is thought to behave like a superconducting metal.
  — Byeric Hand, science.org, 26 Sep. 2022
• One of the easiest and most effective ways for an application to not demand extra work is to behave in a manner consistent with what users expect.
  — Mike Fitzmaurice, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• My experience of social media, and that of many people around my age, was predicated on making fun of our parents and people their age, who didn’t know what the internet was or how to behave on it.
  — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2022
• Spending time with someone who doesn’t prioritize you, who can’t read the room and behave like an adult in basic social situations, and who shows a lack of respect by oversharing to family and friends.
  — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024