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

“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

"There should be more support for teachers, and parents should have to do more to stop their children behaving like this - it starts at home."

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Breaking the results out by sector, and most of the sectors actually are behaving as expected –- it’s just tech, telecoms and retail that are not.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

If I were an outsider watching this conversation, I would tell myself to stop pushing, that no one wants to help someone behaving childishly.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse