well-behaved
Example Sentences
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The old-school kind where everybody is mostly well-behaved and polite, and the audience scrolls on their phones to stay awake.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
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
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
“I’m surprised! A well-behaved girl like you. What would your mother say if she knew you had been impertinent to your teacher?”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
