Roost

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"Roost" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

At home it is Liisa who rules the roost.

I'm thinking of burning your roost.

The chickens have come home to roost.

Some birds migrate to roost during specific seasons.

The cranes land in the shallows of a small pond where they will roost tonight, and cool off.

The bat's roost is located high up in the trees.

The bat emerged from its roost at dusk.

The bat colonies roost in caves and trees.

He clapp'd his wings upon his roost.

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The UPS package centre for central London, a brief walk from Kentish Town tube station, holds a below-ground bay in which 170 vans roost every night.

Sometimes the whole tract swung to one side, like the tail of a live serpent; sometimes, for a glimpse, it would all disappear and then boil up again. What it was I had no guess, which for the time increased my fear of it; but I now know it must have been the roost or tide race, which had carried me away so fast and tumbled me about so cruelly, and at last, as if tired of that play, had flung out me and the spare yard upon its landward margin.

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