behavior

[bɪ'heɪvjər]

Definition:
1. The action or reaction of something.
2. Manner of acting or controlling yourself.
3. The aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation.

Use 'behavior' in a sentence:

1. Your own personal behavior as a teacher, outside of school hours, reflects on the school itself.
2. Procrastinators like to find excuses to justify their behavior.
3. Alcohol can produce violent, disruptive behavior.
4. They assimilated their customs and behavior to the new environment.
5. Ian's rages and aberrant behavior worsened.
6. You should take more pride in your behavior.
7. Apologize to her for your rude behavior!
8. Children easily identify with rewards, so this is a good way to keep their behavior in check.
9. A plasma is a quasineutral gas of charged and neutral particles which exhibits collective behavior.
10. These eating patterns are a learned behavior.
11. His behavior did not comport with his office.
12. My current research is really about consumer behavior.
13. Behavior like this will lead you into trouble.
14. Parenting behavior, that sounds so gentle and caring.
15. It's obvious from his ruthless behavior that he has no morality.
16. They may be patterns of structure, patterns of behavior, or both.
17. The gift to the boy was conditioned on his good behavior.
18. I see you've been distinguishing yourself at school again. I have had a lot of complaints about your behavior.
19. I'll engage in John's behavior if you decide to employ him.
20. She was irked by their behavior.
21. He hasn't a leg to stand on for his behavior.
22. You have surprised me with your good behavior.
23. Parents worry about the effect of music on their adolescent's behavior.
24. Your behavior is causing our name to be dragged through the mud.
25. Here are some surprising stories about animal behavior.
26. Every scolding that boy just seems to glance off him and not change his behavior at all.
27. His behavior was such that everyone disliked him.
28. Language is the most astonishing behavior in the animal kingdom.
29. It is regarded as a natural behavior that a man helps the old down stairs.
30. He always puts his opinions and rules of behavior on me.
31. He lost his job because of his eccentric behavior.
32. Occasionally his behavior became so uncontrollable that he had to be placed in a straitjacket.
33. His noble ideas and polite behavior are laudable.
34. The reasons for this behavior are fairly straightforward.
35. Your behavior was very remiss.
36. Such behavior will bring you into contempt.
37. As an example, let's look at foraging behavior among beavers.
38. Her actions and thoughts became distorted. So did her behavior.
39. His behavior was called provocative and antisocial.
40. A variation of a gene can influence people's social behavior.
41. Listening is a polite behavior.
42. The committee were united in their praise of the boy's behavior.
43. Accusing us of being disloyal to cover his own sorry behavior is truly execrable.
44. My behavior as an international civil servant must be beyond reproach.
45. His uncontrolled behavior disturbed the entire class.
46. Dr. Reichert has shown us a new way to look at those behavior problems.
47. Language is not art but both are forms of human behavior.
48. His behavior showed him to be a snake.
49. You can tailor the login and logout behavior.
50. He is adult in behavior.
51. Listen to part of a lecture in an animal behavior class.
52. You cannot justify such behavior.
53. His behavior was in good taste.
54. His behavior is injurious to the interests of the vast majority of people.
55. His behavior grew more unpredictable by the day, and increasingly tyrannical.
56. It is just a wrapper around the behavior inside the method.
57. His behavior would try the patience of Job.
58. The behavior of these unbound electrons is critical.
59. The boy's behavior deviates from the usual pattern.
60. We should not reward bad behavior.
61. This is the kind of behavior we have come to expect of him.
62. Her behavior this week has solidified her support within the Department of Justice.
63. The researches studied the behavior of female brown capuchin monkeys.
64. Our other neighbors don't like his behavior.
65. How does this relate to their behavior?
66. But that's not an irrelevant or inappropriate behavior.
67. He was outraged by their behavior.
68. The behavior has been regarded by some workers as an hereditary characteristic.
69. At his trial, he tried to minimize his behavior.
70. She embodies her principles in her behavior.
71. It will be many years before anyone can predict a hurricane's behavior with much accuracy.
72. His behavior under fire approved him a man of courage.
73. In your behavior, you can be an actor.
74. What's the connection between bird and dinosaur behavior?
75. These theorists view language as imitative, learned behavior.
76. You must make a critical examination of your bad behavior.
77. He manifested his strong love for Susan in his behavior.
78. You ought to be ashamed of your foolish behavior.
79. All I did was let him know his behavior was unacceptable.