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How to use the word behave in a Sentence?

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Now I am calm and clear before me. I did everything to correct this situation – and for the rest (I was) showed a good lesson on how not to behave.

Yuri Chilikin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I participated as well as I could, I kept my word, now I am calm and clear before me. I did everything to correct this situation – and for the rest (I was) showed a good lesson on how not to behave.

Yuri Chilikin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I call on all the demonstrators in Jerusalem, on the right and the left, to behave responsibly and not to act violently. We are brotherly people.

Ammar Awad/Reuters Massive spontaneous protests

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Give me control over a man's economic actions, and hence over his means of survival, and except for a few occasional heroes, I'll promise to deliver to you men who think and write and behave as I want them to.

Benjamin A. Rooge

added by Normando
1 year ago

I have seen in real time what … sexual violence and sexual abuse and other types of abuse can do to an individual, men in this case have to take individual responsibility to really push back against … the way other men behave towards women.

Ayo Khalil

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was anxious about how it would behave, the wing could pivot back [to the traditional] 90 degrees to the fuselage to be able to land, and he found out that you’d have to do a very gentle, slow descent, but you’d get what you needed and it would be okay.

Christian Gelzer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s not about Olivia or NIL or social media, it’s just I guess sort of the sense of entitlement that some people feel they can behave a certain way and that what we saw go on out there was a behavior that I didn’t think was appropriate, that’s not normal autograph seeking behavior, you know, engagement with an athlete with fans and that kind of stuff. There was a, there was a mob sense to that scene that that was very disconcerting to me and that’s what I hope is not going to become the norm.

Jay Clark on Wednesday

Found on CNN
1 year ago

No man who would behave that way at that moment in time can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation again, he is unfit for any office.

Liz Cheney

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Humanity is in big trouble when adults behave like malicious teenagers and teenagers behave like malicious adults.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
1 year ago

You all know me, I do not call people names, I really work hard to bring people together, and that's what we're working to do, well, that's what I'm saying, and that's just not the way I roll and not the way I behave.

Glenn Youngkin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The consumer price index report has introduced a level of uncertainty about how the Fed will behave.

Garrett DeSimone

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A lot of members of Congress behave immaturely and are deeply unserious dealing with very serious issues.

Victoria Spartz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We do have ground entry rules, and those ground entry rules are really focused on everyone’s quiet enjoyment of the tennis. So that’s not about what people are wearing; it’s about the way people behave.

Sally Bolton

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We do have ground entry rules, and those ground entry rules are really focused on everyone’s quiet enjoyment of Wimbledon Tennis. So that’s not about what people are wearing ; it’s about the way people behave.

Sally Bolton

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's all about inspiring people to become more aware of the natural world around them and once that connection is forged, to change the way they behave, the way they act, the way they connect with that life around them.

Biologist Jeremy Shelton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They behave like pillagers and marauders. And, you know, there is a lot of information about the future provocations that brood in Mariupol and other territories where the Ukrainians are now trying to use the civilians as a human shield, talk to the Indians, the Arabs, and the Africans that are trying to flee Ukraine now. They are not allowed.

Sergey Lavrov

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This person wants to know where my mask was. It was in my pocket. I took it off for the picture. There was nobody in front of me, i’m glad to wear my mask in a pandemic. It’s not hard and it shows I care about the people around me. I was glad SoFi required proof of vaccination. Getting vaccinated is the sane thing to do in a pandemic. I’m glad sane people behave in a sane manner in an insane time. Where’s your mask?

Jesse Aguilar

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're allowing killers to walk freely amongst us, we've become so used to seeing people behave erratically in public that it doesn't draw attention until someone gets killed. We've been desensitized to the fact that people need help. They cannot be safely walking amongst us. That's just a fantasy.

Alex Villanueva

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We know there are going to be cases, with the flu, we've had experience with flu pandemics before. So we know typically the way they behave. This has been an evolving situation with a totally novel pathogen.

Arnold Monto

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you look at how these major companies behave when faced with Chinese disapproval, they censor what the CCP tells them to censor, and we see groveling apologies.

Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Pennsylvania Republicans have clear advantages going into the 2022 midterm, they just have to not blow it. And not blowing it requires former President Trump to behave constructively, that would actually be constructive, to stay out of the primary.

Charlie Dent

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I urge Invesco to behave like a shareholder not like the owner ... You want a fight, then I will fight back.

Subhash Chandra

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I do think that's what we're seeing, the current models we have for how fires are going to behave don’t cover this because it’s just off the charts. It’s hazardous to firefighters and hard as hell to predict what it’s going to do.

Malcolm North

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At times when the nation is being torn apart, it's especially useful that the branch of government that still commands the highest trust of the American public -- and, I think most of the time, does behave in the less partisan, less divisive ways -- for that branch to speak up and remind the American public the principles underlying this.

Michael McConnell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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