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Sentence count:79+3Posted:2017-04-21Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: perchrestSimilar words: roosterboostboosternoosemooseloosegooseloosenMeaning: [ruːst]  n. 1. a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds 2. a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep. v. 1. sit, as on a branch 2. settle down or stay, as if on a roost. 
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31. The chickens were free to roam this winter garden, although the sensible ones had gone to roost by now.
32. I kind of ruled the roost a bit, but we got on well.
33. In that time some twenty thousand people would tramp round the marked routes or roost in one of the twenty grandstands.
34. All day the eye of the sky bulges, lidless and forgiving until darkness comes to roost undisturbed in its lashes.
35. The birds spend much of their day foraging in dense, varied vegetation and return to roost together at dusk.
36. The lessons of what it meant to be the formal authority were coming home to roost.
37. It was this atmosphere that formed the perfect background to a display of starlings gathering at their night-time roost.
38. In the meantime, it was Amelia who ruled the family roost.
39. But, for the over extended borrowers, the chickens have come home to roost.
40. Political expediency, political vengeance still rule the roost, not only in waterfowl jobs but throughout the establishment.
41. All are roost sites except Salthouse, where there was a nest and the pellets collected came mainly from the nestlings.
42. During winter months, hundreds of grey-lag geese roost on Toftingall.
43. Effective discipline is neither harsh nor does it allow the child to rule the roost.
44. Table 2.2 Barn owl samples: nest site versus roost site.
45. The others do not return, presumably traveling on to another, more distant roost.
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46. The soft twittering hum came from birds going to roost.
47. I watched the ravens returning to roost on many evenings, always wondering if Jack might be among them.
48. The ravens had returned to their roost in the pines and were noisily getting settled when I got back.
49. Many traditionally fortean phenomena have since come to roost in the world of science.
50. But Mr Norman rules the roost in the film field with a regular 4 million audience, twice the weekly cinema audience.
51. His acerbity to his daughter came home to roost.
52. Look! There is a roost in this tree.
53. Her selfishness will come home to roost someday.
54. The noise alarmed the whole roost into flight.
55. Curses came home to roost, Mammy said.
56. Birds roost in [ on ] the trees.
57. Curses come home to roost n.
58. The birds are at roost in the trees.
59. Curses come home to roost.
60. His unkindness to his daughter came home to roost.
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