behoove

[ US /bɪˈhuv/ ]
VERB
  1. be appropriate or necessary
    It behooves us to reflect on this matter
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How To Use behoove In A Sentence

  • While price pressure is a huge factor in who can and cannot survive on the land, it behoves us to take the longer-term view, if at all possible, to ensure that we maintain a balance between rural and urban living.
  • From what Meer does tell me, it behooves us to look to our own. A TIME OF WAR
  • And it behoves us to see that they're given a fair chance to develop clean and wholesome bodies without which any nation must go to the wall.
  • ’ Then did they ask a thousand questions of Don Quixote; but he would answer to none of them, and only requested them to give him some meat, and suffer him to sleep, seeing rest was most behooveful for him. The First Part. V. Wherein Is Prosecuted Former Narration of Our Knight’s Misfortunes
  • And of everych of these sins it behoveth them to be shriven of their priests, and to pay great sum of silver for their penance. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • Besides, I behooved to be round the hirsel this morning, and see how the herds were coming on—they’re apt to be negligent wi’ their footballs, and fairs, and trysts, when ane’s away. Chapter XXV
  • Consequently, agricultural bank anti - corruption defeats behoove from correct violate compasses manage grab.
  • It behoved them not to tarry on that account, for verily the value of the two hundred loads is only some seven thousand dinars. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • It behooves us to reflect on this matter
  • If I tell people what I am doing it behoves me to do something!
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