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.
• The balance, the agility and the way the V8 behaves ...
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 1 June 2025
• None of the rest of them would have known how to behave.
  — Daniyal Mueenuddin, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
• What's worse, not all of those fault lines behave the same way.
  — Ben Finley, ajc, 16 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Sit yourselves in a room and try to behave like adults.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 11 Jan. 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
• Parts of the multiverse have mutants who look and behave a lot like the Fox ones.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 18 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Americans should learn from them how to behave when the votes don’t go your way.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 21 Sep. 2021
• 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
• While one brand's tech achieves the same end as another's, that's not to say all systems behave the same way.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2021
• 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
• An overlaid text on the video poked fun at the contrast between how the cats were expected to behave and what actually happened.
  — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
• Because people often lack self-awareness and don’t intend to behave in this way, such behavior becomes a significant blind spot for them.
  — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025