Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: behaving
IPA transcription: [bɪh'eɪvɪŋ]
Usage examples
  • 'Your father has been behaving brutally,' he said, holding her hands and gazing anxiously at her.
  • He was a-horseback behaving as if the place belonged to him--and commanding all and sundry to fight the British.
  • Mr. Redmain, who had pleasure in behaving handsomely so far as money was concerned, bought his wife the best sapphire he could find, and, for once, really pleased her.
  • Well, during the first days, progress was very slow, the ice being rough and laney, and the dogs behaving most badly, stopping dead at every difficulty, and leaping over the traces.
  • The necessity for work of such a strenuous nature in the mere preliminaries of the process of planting a garden is due to the fact that the average back-yard has, up till the present time, been behaving less like a garden than anything else in the world.