well-behaved

Example Sentences

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As long as they’re home by curfew, and have been well-behaved that week, the teens are allowed to set their own schedules.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

But she says she soon realised that being well-behaved at Skircoat made her a target for Phillips.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026

JPMorgan said a combination of solid growth and well-behaved inflation are producing a Goldilocks set-up for stocks to flourish.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 23, 2026

At first his projects were fairly well-behaved and faithful, at least outwardly, to the Modernist principles he had learned at USC: flat roofs, restrained geometry.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

It was empty now, but sweetly expectant of clean, white, well-behaved children and parents who would play there above the lake in summer before half-running, half-stumbling down the slope to the welcoming water.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison