Sentence examples for but behaved from inspiring English sources

It would mean plesiosaurs not only occupied a similar ecological niche to whales, but behaved like them, too.

The convicts held the Hills hostage for nineteen hours, but behaved, Garment writes, "in a decent, even gentlemanly, manner".

Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister he toppled, was democratically elected but behaved like an autocrat, shearing the presidency of its powers and undermining the judiciary.

Kavanagh's study of the defected Russian dancer revealed, as one reviewer attested, "a man who danced like a god, but behaved like a violent, voracious beast".

Former President Jimmy Carter was a good enough sort but "behaved really badly toward the shah of Iran" when he refused him asylum, she says.

The chancellor talked of prudence but behaved like a cash machine on the blink.No constituency from multinationals to savers, from road hauliers to vicars escaped the shower of largesse.

But behaving more like a business presents its own problems.

"Many in Europe boast that they are Christians but behave otherwise.

But behaving thus at this point in his biography could only have been voluntary.

This instrument is not really a bond at all but behaves more like equity.

She looks like a fashion plate but behaves with disassociated poise.