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.
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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Meanings and Examples of BEHAVE
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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.
2 You behave as if you were married to her already.
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.
4 What on earth induced her to behave as she did, I never could understand.
5 Oh, I must behave in my own way.
6 You've got to learn to behave like a duchess.
7 If you promise to behave yourself, Henry, I'll ask her to come down.
8 And I should never have known that ladies and gentlemen didn't behave like that if you hadn't been there.
9 He can't behave himself in church.
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.
11 What she found hardest to bear was to know that on such occasions she ought to behave like Mademoiselle Bourienne, but could not.
12 O God, grant that in his presence I may rather see my own vileness, and behave so that he too may benefit.
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.
14 O God, if he were here now I would not behave as I did then, but differently.
15 The husband, however, did not seem to share that conviction and tried to behave morosely with Rostov.
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.