well-behaved

Example Sentences

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"I was a good child and I loved school but if you were well-behaved there, the more targeted you were," she said.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026

If parents only left money to well-behaved adult children with a pristine record of good manners and fiscal responsibility, most pet shelters would probably never have to raise funds again.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 18, 2026

It sounds like something out of a Trollope novel—a well-behaved boy lapping up statecraft over dinner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 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

On the beach, well-behaved waves zipped and unzipped themselves.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell