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Example sentences for "misbehave"

Lexicographically close words:
misapprehensions; misappropriated; misappropriation; misbecome; misbegotten; misbehaved; misbehaving; misbehavior; misbehaviour; misbelief
  1. We don't misbehave if we are on the Open Road," she said.

  2. Village girls misbehave and people in the next county run away sometimes with other people's wives; but one never expects such adventures to come walking in to one's own breakfast-table.

  3. This is so strong, that too often the man quarrelled with, though he be as innocent as was Phineas on the present occasion, is made subject to the general aversion which is felt for men who misbehave themselves.

  4. Mr. Bonteen, in his troubled spirit, certainly did misbehave himself.

  5. I tell you I can misbehave as well as any boy.

  6. Come on, Scott, I'm going to misbehave all day.

  7. Thus did the army misbehave amongst the people, dishonouring every bed, robbing every house, devastating every field, till they were themselves involved in the general ruin.

  8. The archdeacon could have afforded to keep up two Cosby Lodges for his son, and would have been well pleased to do so, if only his son would not misbehave against him so shamefully!

  9. Each of these should have a particular walk or stand, and no other shoe-cleaner should come into that walk, unless the person misbehave and be removed.

  10. But if servants misbehave themselves, or leave their places, not being regularly discharged, they ought to be amerced or punished.

  11. But," some one says, "how can healthy organs misbehave in this way?

  12. By sending messages directly to an organ through the nerve-centers or by changing circulation, the subconscious director of our bodies can make any part of us misbehave in a number of ways.

  13. Their reply is, ‘We cannot do so—they are not under our controul; but if they misbehave themselves, fire upon them.

  14. The chiefs say they cannot control their men, and that if their people misbehave themselves at our gates, or around our walls, we must fire upon them.

  15. Some horses will endeavor to rub a rider's knees against a wall, when they may readily be foiled by having the head drawn into the wall; others will misbehave on slippery pavement; others will refuse to go in desired directions.

  16. If a fresh horse will stand the ordeal of a cold panel, it will not be apt to misbehave under other trials.

  17. If they misbehave in the dining-room you can send them up-stairs to the nursery, but if they misbehave in the nursery, where the deuce can you send them?

  18. I am glad you rather chose to serve as a volunteer at your own charge, than to take any command, which, for want of experience, you might misbehave in.

  19. Shall God and his holy angels see thee like a bedlam lay by thy reason and misbehave thyself?


  20. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misbehave" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.