How To Use Behave In A Sentence

Equally badly behaved, but a little calmer and better informed, were the massive numbers from the labor unions.
We kept Mnemosyne for over two months, and never once did she misconduct herself or behave in an unseamanlike manner. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 26, 1917
Make sure you behave yourselves when we visit Grandma.
No rational person would ever behave like that.
The press has behaved so abominably towards Michael.

A child superstar, who married the world's worst behaved man.
her child behaves precociously
The bladelike projections behaved like serpents, attacking and recoiling repeatedly. Reap the Whirlwind
She will have to learn to behave properly.
She will probably behave brilliantly if you make the generous overture of inviting her in the first place. Times, Sunday Times
To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolute sober.
This alters the way in which one of the proteins in the retina—rhodopsin, a pigment responsible for night vision as well as blue-green color vision—behaves. Birdology
Multimedia is the attempt to make computers behave like television sets, only interactively.
Hubert in particular was recalling times past when Patricia had behaved less than honourably towards his favourite cousin.
Would you trust this man to behave fairly, honestly, and ethically in his portfolio?
Apart from politically inspired race riots in the early 1960s, rarely did Black people behave badly towards us.
It seems to us to contravene all normal rules of equity that they should be able to behave in this fashion.
It is shocking that humans can behave with such bestiality towards others.
The attitudes of others were matters of conjecture although there were plenty of rumours about how individuals had behaved.
Teenagers don't seem to understand that they don't have to actively misbehave to be disagreeable to older people.
To be fair, she behaved better than we expected.
You do not behave like that in our most treasured house of the people. The Sun
To walk or behave in an arrogant manner. The Sun
He's a spoilt brat and it's about time he learnt to behave properly.
Some people don't know how to behave - and that's not just the bogans vomiting in the garden.
you behaved scandalously when you walked out of that meeting!
Stern and serious moral advice to women on how to behave has a sweeter-natured sister.
She is a skittish girl who doesn 't behave herself.
The majority of parents who did not misbehave want to restage the play. Times, Sunday Times
Faculty members complained that he behaved autocratically in establishing the center without soliciting their advice and consent.
MOHAMMED MAMDANI, MUSLIM YOUTH HELPLINE: Many young Muslims feel they're leading double lives because they have to behave a particular way within the Muslim community. CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2007
From her own point of view Barbara had behaved abominably.
The crowd were so well behaved, without an intoxicating drink passing their lips.
It depends on how the Rightist gentlemen behave themselves.
The boy behaved very well last night.
So if anyone tries to tell you how to behave, your hackles will rise and the fiery side of your nature will come to the fore. The Sun
Just try to behave normally.
Do you think that this is an accurate description of how people behave when they acquire extra money?
If two leggers are respectful and properly admiring of us for the exotic, superior beings that we are, then we will always be well behaved in return.
_ That's what I do want to know, zoa come along -- Woo ye though -- Missus, let's behave pratty -- Zur if you pleaze, Dame and I will let you walk along wi 'us. Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
When, for example, Karl and I made the simulation more realistic and allowed for mutations, or mistakes in an evolving population of players, then we saw cooperation and defection wax and wane over time, as those with a good reputation are actually undermined by indiscriminate altruists who help anyone, no matter how well or badly the latter have behaved in the past. SuperCooperators
We had a fantastic morning of special projects and a movie... with one small glitch between the project and the movie* everyone has been in a great mood, having fun and well behaved if kids are happy they behave -- did you all know that? Hip Hip Hooray and Sniff Sniff
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. Aldous Huxley
Expert advice: ‘These balls behave like balata on the green and still have the distance of a hard two-piece ball.’
They behave to one another as they do to a foreign armadillo, in spite of their genetic similarity.
Children who behave badly are rejecting adult values.
It wasn't so much the oath that roused the furor as the document which accompanied it, entitled Protocols and Requirements Between Spiritual Father & His Spiritual Sons, which takes, Garth George of The New Zealand Herald noted, "1300 words to describe in jaw-dropping detail how the 'spiritual sons' shall behave towards their 'spiritual father.' Cult scene: New Zealand and Africa - Boing Boing
She said most pupils were well behaved, but ‘there were some serious issues around individual children exhibiting poor behaviour’.
The rebel army behaved in a brutal fashion.
We trust the players to behave like proper people. The Sun
I have never known him to behave any other than selfishly.
He behaves as if high rank automatically confers the right to be obeyed.
It's our belief that people behave differently on the Internet than they do offline.
But of course these were not the only reasons why she behaved and reacted as she did. The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History
Apart from one brief pitch invasion when Sunderland scored, the supporters of both clubs behaved impeccably.
He said his client admitted he had done wrong and would behave differently if he had his time again.
I pity you if you think this is an acceptable way to behave.
Nowadays it is the footballers who behave like oafs off the field, while rugby players act like hooligans on it.
This is a system that combines a disciplined step-by-step approach with a robust programme to modify how people work and behave in an organisation. Times, Sunday Times
None of these characters is evil, none commits the transgression that precipitates the suicide, but all are driven, understandably yet horrifyingly, to behave in devious ways that wound others badly. Cover to Cover
Similarly, a rejecting parent may allow the child to behave as he or she likes.
It seems daft to me that anyone who so much as flirts with the idea of a career in education would fail to remember what they know about how teenagers behave.
These rotations further suggest that forces acting on the nearshore edges of large floes behave differently from those acting on offshore edges.
She behaved as any upright citizen would have under the circumstances.
Sound behaves quite differently to light.
Why have the Saudis behaved in this unhelpful way? Times, Sunday Times
The result is a dot that behaves as if it were one giant superatom within which electrons flow freely, encountering no electrical resistance. New Scientist - Online News
I behaved badly yesterday and I am ashamed now.
The incumbents often behave badly towards new entrants. Times, Sunday Times
So far the Obama Administration, to our surprise and perhaps its own, has behaved with admirable sobriety despite the wailing from the political left. The Housing Bust Lobby
If you all behave yourselves while we're away, I might bring you back something.
A government that began with a Commons majority of 179 behaved in a lickspittle fashion towards its natural enemies.
He behaved like a petulant child and refused to cooperate.
Phelps was accused of failing to “demean himself” (= behave) properly, but he has certainly succeeded, then and since then, in demeaning (= debasing) himself. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Disbarment of Fred Phelps
To be fair to the script writers, they have made Todd behave in a way which entitled his erstwhile friends and neighbours to complain about his conduct.
As young ladies we were expected to act/behave with proper decorum.
In other words, aggressive fantasy may suggest or stimulate aggressive behaviour, rather than drain off the motive to behave aggressively.
I think more behave honestly than dishonestly. Times, Sunday Times
“He’s behaved like a perfect peeg!” she said gruffly, pronouncing the word cochon as though she referred to Joan of Arc’s contemporary, Bishop Cauchon. Within a Budding Grove
Why can't that boy behave?
I couldn't believe it of him because he had behaved so normally at home.
Based on what's known about electron-electron interactions and about antiferromagnetism in other metals, the authors created a theoretical framework to explain the behavior of the pnictides, offering some specific predictions about how they will behave as they change phases. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
Thus, while idiolects (or the speech of individuals) considered in isolation might seem random, the speech community as a whole behaved regularly.
But we do not want to behave like we behaved and that is it. The Sun
On the first day they would behave like it wasn't going to be there when they went back. Times, Sunday Times
The way he has behaved here sometimes, though, you wonder if he would not be better suited to live action.
The well-behaved children sat on the floor, which when it rained, became muddy.
I sat down on the chair and wondered if there was any point in trying to make my unruly mop of hair behave.
So I feel very disquieted by any suggestion that this is a memoir showing people how possible it is to make the most of a bad start, how to love parents who have behaved atrociously, how to somehow miraculously rise above trauma out of sheer good will. The Glass Castle « Tales from the Reading Room
Our spirits, however, were much cheered by hearing that the sultan had received a letter from a seyyid at Meshed (probably the nice one who had been in India and had leprosy in his legs), telling him how very badly the sultan of Hagarein had behaved about us. Southern Arabia
Keep your wits about you, behave properly and do as you would in your own country.
And when rugby players misbehave it is apparently football's problem, too. Times, Sunday Times
Peace and blessings 2 all of good moral conduct, i pray and hope that this bill will stop insurance companies from being immune from prosecution when they behave criminally by changing a patients identity in order 2 evade responsibilities in honoring the ethic codes of providing health coverage without prejudice because of preconditioned injuries, .. Reid's vote surprises everyone – including himself
An alien force colonizes an otherwise sane and sound mind, forcing the possessed person to behave in a wicked way. Psychobabble and the Real Perps
The earth behaves like a vast magnet. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
Should voters behave in this fashion, the contents of the Opposition's election manifesto become less significant in deciding the result.
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. Kurt Vonnegut
Sit quietly and behave yourself.
You can ill afford to criticize others when you behave so badly yourself.
I thought he behaved very badly.
I want my email program to be well-behaved, and reasonably secure from the outset.
Is it ever okay for the narrator to behave this way – where the antagonist is the protagonist? Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Voice Q&A: Evil Narrators and Guy Talk
Although the date of the millennium is arbitrary, it has undeniably affected how people behave.
By discovering its shape, and how it behaved biochemically in the human immune system, they showed that this retrovirus (a retrovirus invades and fuses with DNA of host cells and replicates as part of that cell) was the first known human lentivirus, that is a virus with a long incubation period. Medlogs - Recent stories
Behave yourself or I'll give you a thick ear!
If temperamental young starlets like Rooney or Ronaldo had behaved in this fashion, we may have been able to put it down to inexperience and youthful mischief.
If you go to your local restaurant and behave like a sane person, no one cares.
His imperialists are often nasty folk who behaved horribly towards the natives under their yoke.
Instead, these people are just as selfish and impolite as any ordinary person, but are more convinced that they have a right to behave that way.
You should educate your children to behave well.
I'll behave toward them as I would like to be treated.
Poets behave badly, a Famous Poet once wrote to me after I complained about how another poet sent me a flurry of angry emails for rejecting his sestina. On leaving the scene
On the road the manual was well behaved and although it lacked a little in the power department, it was apt enough.
Scorsese reinforces the point by juxtaposing images of his own mother preparing food for prim and well-behaved children with the nudie pin-ups that adorn the walls at the hang-out of J.R. and his pals.
I have never known him behave other than selfishly.
Just try to behave normally.
In terms of their chemical, pharmacological, kinetic and therapeutic properties, enantiomers and diasteriomers behave as distinct compounds, therefore stereochemistry should be a topic of major concern to all disciplines.
Known as SoBig.F, the new variant behaves much like its older siblings, infecting Windows machines via e-mail and sending out dozens of copies of itself.
Unfortunately, the values and ideals were also created by those badly behaved Europeans in conditions that the European Union is now desperate to abolish, that is small and medium-sized, competing political entities. Myth of the week
In fact how we behave at Christmas says all sorts of interesting things about our collective and individual psyches: the need the belong, to be part of the community, the psychology of altruism, the art of lying.
We live in a nice, quiet suburban galaxy, with a well-behaved black hole at the center.
If you love someone, then your freedom is curtailed. If you love someone, you give up much of your privacy. If you love someone, then you are no longer merely one person but half of a couple. To think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love. Laurell K. Hamilton
Don't be so rude; that's a nice way to behave to your aunt!
Students who behave outrageously and refuse to mend their ways despite repeated admonitions should be expelled.
The code calls on members to behave with integrity at all times.
People for some reason tend to behave better when cussing is denied them. Community policing: a business somebody should start (hint, hint) « BuzzMachine
A flying mountain, roughly the shape - and size - of the island of Manhattan was turning on a cosmic spit every fifty-three hours; as the heat of the Sun seeped through the insulating crust, the vaporizing gases were making Halley's Comet behave like a leaking steam-boiler. 2061 Odyssey Three
Will Opposition Members try to persuade the welfare rights organisations in their constituencies to behave responsibly?
Your are a lucky or an unlucky person depending on what you choose and decide, as well as how you behave and act in your life. Dr T.P.Chia
And why doesn't it use its noddle and insist on fewer and simpler pricing mechanisms rather than behave like the gullible teenager all the time?
Other politicians in other countries have behaved worse and escaped to survive and prosper. Times, Sunday Times
Accordingly, he could not find in his heart to behave inexorably to the graceful sinner; he entered into conversation, and learned from her the project of a singular disguisement, wherewith it was intended to surprise the Countess. Chapter X. Book III
They behave differently when you're not around.
German physicist Willhelm Conrad Röntgen, who discovered X-rays in the late 19th century, published a paper proposing that liquid water comprised two different structures — one tetrahedral “ice-like” structure, and another more loosely arranged structure, which helped explain why water behaves in such unusual ways. More Evidence for a Revolutionary Theory of Water « Isegoria
The club claims that the man behaved violently towards a Union officer who was collecting entrance fees and had to be restrained by security staff on hand.
He behaved as if / though nothing had happened.
It does now and it behaves accordingly. Times, Sunday Times
For a while the children behaved well but they soon reverted to type .
When the reduction of aluminic oxide by carbon is conducted without the addition of copper, a brittle product is obtained that behaves in many respects like pig iron as it comes from the blast furnace. Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885
General relativity cannot tell you how an atom will behave; quantum mechanics ignores gravity. Times, Sunday Times
The crowd was so well - behaved that the police presence was superfluous.
When trouble comes they behave selfishly and horribly.
This creature sitting across from him had unrefined written all over her delicate features and probably had very little idea of how a real lady should behave.
The only men who behaved unhandsomely on the occasion were some of the Irish members, advocates of Repeal, who, with more than national brass, grounded their declinature on the galling yoke of the Saxon, and retreated to Connemara, doubtless exulting that in this instance at least they had freed themselves from "hereditary bonds. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
Many complained about people who take untrained, ill-behaved animals to public events as well as about people who chuckle a little embarrassed but nothing more when their dogs lunge at people while on walks or leap up on strangers and do that "if it's vertical I'll try to breed with it" behavior against everyone's legs. Pet Talk: Some people hate dogs, in no uncertain terms
You can ill afford to criticize others when you behave so badly yourself.
The "good behavior" encouraged by this sign from the London (UK) police department may help the group and produce indirect benefits to the good-behaver. The Why Files
She says that as there was no injury and that the complainant behaved normally she did not record the incident.
Apart from politically inspired race riots in the early 1960s, rarely did Black people behave badly towards us.
Obviously any author has the ability to use creative license and there are no set rules for how vampires behave or what their characteristics are since they are fictitional. Epinions Recent Content for Home
To walk or behave in an arrogant manner. The Sun
Indeed, Japanese people have always behaved in exemplary fashion after earthquakes. Matthew Yglesias » Principals Unions
They understand that they have the responsibility to behave in an acceptable manner.
Such seedlings behaved identically to seedlings grown on uncovered filter paper and, hence, any possible effects of hydrotropism were eliminated.
We see two American coots, which are black, white-billed rails that behave very similarly to ducks.
Chapman couldn't help but notice that the brothers were remarkably well-behaved, contrary to their reputation for being rock 'n' roll hellraisers.
The crowd got drunk and started to behave rowdily.
If you treat them as adults they will usually behave in a mature and adult manner. Working with Teenagers
Nobody can predict how a soldier will behave under fire. A wild and headstrong person can be a pain in the neck in peacetime, but a stalwart leader in war.
I know I behaved foolishly but you needn't rub it in.
Educaton does not mean teaching people to kow what they do not know ; it means teachng them to behave as they do not behave.
Educaton does not mean teaching people to kow what they do not know ; it means teachng them to behave as they do not behave.
Well, on a personal level, how does he behave behind closed doors as a mediator, as a peacemaker of sorts?
They have ignored the usual modern outcry about not making animals dress up or behave like humans. Times, Sunday Times
This allows the fluorescent microspheres to behave like the aqueous droplets in the emulsion.
Schoolchildren are quick to gang up on anyone who looks or behaves differently.
That feeling of control I mentioned is even more profound when I know I can take my script and move it to another type of operating system later and it will behave the same way.
You need to have specialist knowledge about how scars behave. Times, Sunday Times
What he understands and articulates masterfully is the degree to which people relate without language, simply through the way they behave to and with each other. Archive 2008-08-01
Every culture or society, after all, tends to develop favored forms of behavior, certain ways they expect most people to behave, forms that are believed to conduce to the social benefit.
If you treat them as adults they will usually behave in a mature and adult manner. Working with Teenagers
It was difficult to behave naturally under the burden of knowing the truth.
The code calls on members to behave with integrity at all times.
Different materials behave differently; acrylic plastic is soft and easy to do work with but can melt quickly if you overdo things.
So if anyone tries to tell you how to behave, your hackles will rise and the fiery side of your nature will come to the fore. The Sun
But he emphasised: 'I would like that the best people in the world would behave beautifully because what about the other millions of coaches? Times, Sunday Times
I'd never have expected him to behave like that; he's a real Jekyll and Hyde.
They said girls often misbehaved more subtly and were harder to manage by established methods aimed at aggressive male behaviour.
When the children misbehaved she was unable to cope.
Stepahnie, what you write has value, but it glosses over the fact that there are millions, yes, millions, of your fellow citizens who HAVE behaved in a very prudent risk averse manner, and they are going to get hammered along with everyone else, and policies which exacerbate the exposure the risk averse to hammering caused by the behavior of the imprudent/mendacious discourages prudent risk averse behavior in the future. Matthew Yglesias » On So-Called “Irresponsible” Borrowers
You know the sort of thing: they aren't properly educated, they don't really know how to behave in polite society.
But he behaved beautifully with all that noise and being pulled around. The Sun
The objective, in turn, provides a backcloth against which to make choices about how best to behave.
It is very much a hero based game, but there is unit control, as well, there are times when it advisable to split your group into two and have them behave separately.
the children behaved well
Rather, that person is also entitled to expect others to behave towards him or her in certain ways.
In other words, aggressive fantasy may suggest or stimulate aggressive behaviour, rather than drain off the motive to behave aggressively.
They have the responsibility to behave reasonably in the face of possible threats.
It behaves like a naked superbike with attitude. The Sun
Maybe nothing is wrong if the application behaves correctly and allows the user to be productive.
Bertram is a snob and a liar, and often behaves caddishly. Boston.com Top Stories
Although the afflicted creatures do not behave aggressively, Fosco said, they still pose a threat to domestic animals.
Children often know what is expected of them, and believing that children will behave poorly can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The crowd was so well - behaved that the police presence was superfluous.
Each actor studied their real-life counterpart, boning up on their life stories to get a keener, truer sense of how they would have behaved and talked.
I do not accept that our well-behaved boys should be made to pay for a poorly behaved kid.
The objective, in turn, provides a backcloth against which to make choices about how best to behave.
I encourage them to negotiate based on what they have done well and how they have behaved towards others.
To be fair, she behaved better than we expected.
He is sad that this has come about and he is determined to behave in a dignified manner. The Sun

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