behave
Example Sentences
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Could dressing nicer get air travelers to behave better?
"If you look at any other private business, if they behaved this way, they would be sacked."
From BBC
“You will stay behind this time. I’ve already arranged it with Mrs. Wigginbottom. She will watch after you while I am gone, for a fee, of course. I trust you will behave yourself.”
From Literature
In this phase, water behaves as a solid, but the hydrogen ions can move freely through a rigid lattice of oxygen atoms.
From Science Daily
In magnetic materials, each atom behaves like a tiny bar magnet because of a property called atomic spin.
From Science Daily
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