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.
  • We were supposed to get married and behave in certain ways.
    Julia Turshen, SELF, 15 Oct. 2024
  • How those genes express themselves and behave may depend largely on your daily habits.
    Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 27 Dec. 2022
  • And that will create less weight in the car, which is a fundamental shift in how a racing car behaves and develops.
    Rob Reddick, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Be careful, everyone: If the fans don't behave, the franchise may have to nuke another fridge.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The finding is perplexing—how can matter behave as a wave, and why would recording photons change their behavior?
    Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Unsurprisingly, lots of folks loved seeing Kelly behave just like them.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 21 Dec. 2022
  • That means structuring the workplace—from air quality to spatial formatting—around how people behave and congregate.
    Byruth Umoh, Fortune, 6 Dec. 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 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
  • Ellie bonded with the younger one, the eight-year-old Sam (Keivonn Woodard), laughed with him, found a few moments to behave like kids with him.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Their thoughts on how to behave at fashion week, below.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Is that skin going to be more likely to behave badly with surgery?
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 12 Aug. 2024
  • In other words, the card is designed to behave like cash, which can be passed from person to person.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Better yet, think of it as its own thing rather than expecting the vegetable to behave like a grain.
    Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • But astronomers note that the comets might not behave as expected.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2024

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