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

Fixed-income — shown both on the chart, as well as a more detailed breakdown of corporate credit and other maturities of U.S. government bond — is behaving like it has in previous inflationary outbreaks.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

Norfolk Police earlier said a man was arrested on Wednesday after officers received a report of a man behaving in an intimidating manner in Wolferton.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

Alito attended Princeton during the Vietnam War and was put off “by very privileged people behaving irresponsibly,” as he later described his classmates.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

And throughout the whole beginning of the service, Ma would peer down the pew to make sure we were behaving, which was hard because we always sat in the row with the stinky Thomases.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds