Explore Behave through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like act or bear. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Behave meaning
- To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way; to conform.
- To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
- To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
Using Behave
- The main meaning on this page is: To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way; to conform. | To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner. | To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
- Useful related words include: act, bear, comport, carry.
- In the example corpus, behave often appears in combinations such as: to behave, behave in, behave like.
Context around Behave
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 2 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Behave
- In this selection, "behave" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, people, leadership, belizeans, itself, differently and almost stand out and add context to how "behave" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include able to behave in lots and and you behave the way. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "behave" sits close to words such as accessing, advent and conditioning, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with behave
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And somehow the servers seemed to behave almost impeccably? (9 words)
But in terms of what does that mean, how should we behave? (12 words)
But not one about how we should behave in the presence of a viceroy. (14 words)
If the animal can behave in the company of several dozen people in a claustrophobic environment (like an airplane), then the animal should be allowed to board the plane as long as it has proven that it can behave itself properly. (41 words)
Lily added: “When people started talking about the Me Too stuff, what I saw was a lot of men going, ‘not me, I don’t behave like that’, when a lot of men that I do know do behave like that. (41 words)
A local residents’ group called Stop de Gekte recorded the “madness” by patrolling the streets in high vis jackets telling tourists to behave – until announcing this week that “intimidation and threats” from local business owners had forced them to stop. (40 words)
And somehow the servers seemed to behave almost impeccably? (9 words)
But in terms of what does that mean, how should we behave? (12 words)
If Belizeans behave this way for ham and turkey imagine how they behave when their souls are in jeopardy! (19 words)
Example sentences (20)
As an owner, you don’t have to behave like an owner, you want to behave like a team member.
These reminders helped people behave the way they wanted to behave and had the added benefit of making the people feel good about the overall process, which can be its own reward.
If the animal can behave in the company of several dozen people in a claustrophobic environment (like an airplane), then the animal should be allowed to board the plane as long as it has proven that it can behave itself properly.
The former tough-talking contractor general contended that it was difficult to “ask your population to behave one way when they see those in leadership behave another way”.
When you drink that wine, you get rid of that fear and you have your soul, your neshama comes out, and you behave the way you are scared to behave because of peer pressure.
If Belizeans behave this way for ham and turkey imagine how they behave when their souls are in jeopardy!
Lily added: “When people started talking about the Me Too stuff, what I saw was a lot of men going, ‘not me, I don’t behave like that’, when a lot of men that I do know do behave like that.
To be in a certain mental state, e.g. pain, is just to behave, or be disposed to behave, in certain ways.
Activity in this time scale contains clues to how these stars behave over longer periods.
AI can be useful in detecting, silently, that the “wrong user” is using a wallet because they behave differently.
A local residents’ group called Stop de Gekte recorded the “madness” by patrolling the streets in high vis jackets telling tourists to behave – until announcing this week that “intimidation and threats” from local business owners had forced them to stop.
And he really wants these chatbots, it sounds like, to be able to behave in lots of ways that we might consider offensive or dangerous to have fewer guardrails around them.
And somehow the servers seemed to behave almost impeccably?
As for the moderator, Alberta Chambers of Commerce Chief Operating Officer Jason Leslie, he deserves credit for getting the crowd to behave.
Aside from its ability to reach hypersonic speeds after its air launch, the Kinzhal is believed to behave like a ground-launched Iskander, meaning it is able to maneuver to make interception difficult.
Because the Great Lakes are so big, they behave like small seas with warm water in the summertime and waves plenty big enough to surf.
Beer-soaked and emotional tennis fans have heeded Novak Djokovic's pre-match pleas to behave amid tension around the Australian Open final.
But in terms of what does that mean, how should we behave?
But not one about how we should behave in the presence of a viceroy.
By no means are dogs the only family pets that behave this way either.
Common combinations with behave
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to behave 74×
- behave in 30×
- behave like 28×
- behave as 16×
- they behave 12×
- behave and 11×
- and behave 11×
- will behave 10×
- people behave 9×
- would behave 7×