BEHAVE in a Sentence

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177 example sentences for BEHAVE, such as:
1. Oh, I must behave in my own way.
2. He can't behave himself in church.
3. You've got to learn to behave like a duchess.
4. You behave as if you were married to her already.
5. Get to your bed and try to behave more discreetly.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of BEHAVE
behave
 v.  behave in a certain manner
 v.  behave well or properly
Classic Sentence: (132 in 9 pages)
1  Get to your bed and try to behave more discreetly.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  You behave as if you were married to her already.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In FIRST ACT
3  The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In FIRST ACT
4  What on earth induced her to behave as she did, I never could understand.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
5  Oh, I must behave in my own way.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
6  You've got to learn to behave like a duchess.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
7  If you promise to behave yourself, Henry, I'll ask her to come down.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
8  And I should never have known that ladies and gentlemen didn't behave like that if you hadn't been there.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
9  He can't behave himself in church.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
10  I don't know when you'll get more sense into your head, when you'll behave like a decent, well-bred girl, when you'll know what good manners are and a proper demeanor.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
11  What she found hardest to bear was to know that on such occasions she ought to behave like Mademoiselle Bourienne, but could not.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
12  O God, grant that in his presence I may rather see my own vileness, and behave so that he too may benefit.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X
13  Only then did she remember how she must behave at a ball, and tried to assume the majestic air she considered indispensable for a girl on such an occasion.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XV
14  O God, if he were here now I would not behave as I did then, but differently.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII
15  The husband, however, did not seem to share that conviction and tried to behave morosely with Rostov.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1  How we behave is up to us, ” but Nikolai believes that everything is predetermined by one's particular circumstances.
2  The widow she didn't scold, but only cleaned off the grease and clay, and looked so sorry that I thought I would behave awhile if I could.
3  Miss Manners counsels her readers so that they may behave with due propriety in any social situation and not embarrass themselves.
4  They agree that half the fun of being sober is watching how really stupid their drunk friends behave.
5  Finally, his expression solemn, he replied, You are a complex woman, Annabel, despite the fact that you sometimes behave like an impulsive child.
6  Bishop Proudie's wife expected all the subordinate clergy to behave with great deference to the wife of their superior.
7  When the teacher threatened that she would castigate the mischievous boys if they didn't behave, they shaped up in a hurry.
8  Because she wanted the children to make a good impression on the dinner guests, Mother promised them a treat if they'd behave for the duration of the meal.
9  If you behave, I will expunge this notation from your record.
10  Hormonally driven teenage lust is not a template for how adults should behave.
11  WELL, I got a good going-over in the morning from old Miss Watson on account of my clothes; but the widow she didn't scold, but only cleaned off the grease and clay, and looked so sorry that I thought I would behave awhile if I could.
12  Children who behave badly are rejecting adult values.
13  Educaton does not mean teaching people to kow what they do not know ; it means teachng them to behave as they do not behave.
14  Parents always ask children to behave themselves at dinner.
15  When a boy reaches manhood, he should behave like a man.