behaving

Example Sentences

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“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

Police were called to a report of a man behaving in an intimidating manner in the village of Wolferton, near the Sandringham Estate, at about 19:30 on Wednesday.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

Magnons are quasiparticles, i.e. groups of particles behaving as if they were individual particles instead.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

"At that time, I was behaving a little bit like this flamethrower," she explained.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

It had become obvious to me by then, from the way the doctors, the co-ordinator, the nurses were behaving, that they didn’t think she was going to make it.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro