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

"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

There’s nothing financial market participants like more than round numbers, and on day 75 of the war on Iran it’s worth looking at how financial markets are behaving versus other big crises.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 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

Henry and Willow are some of Mom and Dad’s old music friends who’d also had a kid and decided to start behaving like grown-ups.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman