Synonym: perch, rest. Similar words: rooster, boost, booster, noose, moose, loose, goose, loosen. Meaning: [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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1. The peacocks roost in nearby shrubs.
2. Instinct led the pigeons back to the roost.
3. All his earlier mistakes are coming home to roost.
4. Appeasement has come home to roost.
5. Today the country's nationalists rule the roost and hand out the jobs.
6. It's his wife who rules the roost in their house.
7. Liverpool ruled the roost in English football for a decade.
8. But it was those two who ruled the roost.
9. Their extravagant overspending has come home to roost.
10. Bats roost naturally both in caves and hollow trees.
11. Vices, however, like curses, come back to roost.
12. Amanda pretty much rules the roost in that house.
13. In winter, rooks roost communally with jackdaws.
14. Alongside the State, they continued to rule the roost.
15. Flocks leave the roost in waves.
16. The pigeons are coming home to roost.
17. Chickens had come home to roost.
18. Eventually, of course,(sentencedict.com) the chickens came home to roost.
19. Very few fly straight into the roost; most of the ravens are in no hurry to land.
20. They came to roost in the late 1960s in the form of industrial decline and regional decay.
21. The mid-fielders ruled the roost up to the interval, but after a scoreless first half the Antrim team showed great dominance.
22. Chickens roost at night.
23. You should not have sold the car in that unsafe condition ; sooner or later your misdeeds will come home to roost.
24. For years he avoided paying tax. But now his chickens have come home to roost and he's got a tax bill of £25000.
25. In that family it is the grandma who rules the roost.
26. After years of overspending, the chickens have come home to roost.
27. It just looked me over closely, then flew into the roost in the pines to join the others.
28. The late 1960s and early 1970s saw Lee Trevino ruling the roost on both sides of the Pond.
29. Lowry, cackling and scratching, is a hoot as the rooster who lords it over the complaining hens in his roost.
30. From daytime feeding grounds up to twenty miles away, they converge on Abbey Park to roost for the night.