Use "behooved" in a sentence

1. I was no longer a young man, although I still retained most of my great strength, but I was, of course, twenty-odd years older than my ward and it behooved me to think of the possible course of the future

2. Of the future we are behooved,

3. It behooved us to close

4. it behooved him, as soon as possible, to obtain the neat cache

5. But, Christ said to them, "O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Behooved it not the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them all the scriptures the things concerning himself" [Luke 24:13-27]

6. But if in fact we called a “bull” market correctly in general terms, it behooved us to buy-write when volatility was relatively lower, not higher

7. So with a market down by over 40 percent and volatility virtually quadrupling bottom to top in half a year, it behooved one to buy-write as opposed to straight-owning stock

8. As he walked thus with haggard eyes, did he have a distinct perception of what might result to him from his adventure at D——? Did he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that he had just passed the solemn hour of his destiny; that there no longer remained a middle course for him; that if he were not henceforth the best of men, he would be the worst; that it behooved him now, so to speak, to mount higher than the Bishop, or fall lower than the convict; that if he wished to become good be must become an angel; that if he wished to remain evil, he must become a monster?

9. Anne raged over this but was helpless; she could not cast an old friend like Gilbert aside, especially when he had grown suddenly wise and wary, as behooved him in the dangerous proximity of more than one Redmond youth who would gladly have taken his place by the side of the slender, red-haired coed, whose gray eyes were as alluring as stars of evening

10. The only thing that behooved her was to soothe her husband’s last hours on earth—to give out the tenderness of a pitying heart

11. He thought it behooved this House, as the guardian of the public purse and public weal, to take care that the stream of public justice be preserved pure and free from pollution; and whether persons have suffered by prosecutions under the sedition law, or under the common law of England—not the common law of the United States, as modified by the laws of the United States in their corporate capacity—he was for affording them relief