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
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
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
A spokesperson for Exmoor Zoo said they "cannot believe that fate has been so cruel to such a lovely, lively, well-behaved group of children".
From BBC • Jul. 18, 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
