behaving

Example Sentences

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Before it had just been one big, bouncy blue and orange Macy’s balloon, streetwise New York City behaving like some bucolic basketball Mayberry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

“The market is increasingly behaving as though the U.S.-Iran war is ending and the oil market is about to return to normal,” Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management, wrote in a weekend note.

From MarketWatch • May 31, 2026

“He especially enjoyed it when we’d have a story about some politician caught with his hand in the cookie jar, or a spicy feature about stuffed shirts behaving badly,” Willse said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

After treatment, the old stem cells began behaving more like young, healthy cells again.

From Science Daily • May 12, 2026

Another thing I can’t stand is having them talk about me in front of outsiders, telling them how I cried or how sensibly I’m behaving.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank