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Example sentences for: behooves
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It ill behooves us to be unfair to any segment of the population, and it is not only immoral but illegal to discriminate against people on virtually any basis.
But it behooves both Schoenfeld and Culturebox, with the prestige and reach of magazines such as
If there is something wrong, it behooves us to get at the roots of the problem, not to flail about wildly, for only after the source of a disease has been identified can one properly investigate its cure.
The most common American sense of in the bag is `completed, done, consummated,' and, while it ill behooves one to state categorically that `ruined, botched' is not a viable definition, I have never encountered the expression used in that sense on either side of the Atlantic.
Among speakers of English worldwide, either as a native or an acquired language, RP is the most highly regarded accent--indeed, some might well regard RP as standing for `Revealed Pronunciation'--so it behooves one to pay attention to Professor Honey's comments about it, favorable and adverse.
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