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How to use roost in a sentence

30 example sentences · noun, verb

Roost means the place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch). Example: “Opponents see the latest indictments as a case of the chickens coming home to roost.”

Examples of roost by meaning

nounA group of birds roosting together.

  • a roost of birds is merely a fortuitous aggregation of individuals that have strategically placed their roost site to minimize distance to their supplemental and main food sources2018, Clark E. Adams, Urban Wildlife Management, CRC Press
  • A roost of chickens clucked excitedly in the undergrowth to the south of the Mata's enclosure, as a nocturnal snake hunted eggs2018, Chuma Nwokolo, The Extinction of Menai, Ohio University Press

verbTo spend the night.

  • 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.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian

More sentences with roost

  • Opponents see the latest indictments as a case of the chickens coming home to roost.From the entry the chickens come home to roost
  • Malcolm X ain't never lie; Chickens do come home to roost!2020 March 22, Brooklyn Baldwin, “Rand Paul, Staunch Opponent of Coronavirus Healthcare Package, Diagnosed with Coronavirus”, in The Root. From the entry the chickens come home to roost
  • A pair of birds settle on the bough above them, murmuring together, ready to roost.2013, J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee, chapter 18, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Vic.: The Text Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 172. From the entry bough
  • This conyger, where rabbits were reserved centuries ago, is still kept as a pheasant roost.2009, Geoffrey Grigson, The Shell Country Alphabet: The Classic Guide to the British Countryside, →ISBN. From the entry conyger
  • "There's an unkindness of ravens that roosts on top of the guild.2007, Elizabeth Haydon, The Thief Queen's Daughter, Starscape Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 228. From the entry unkindness
  • All the “chicks” (fighter aircraft) are home to roost except one.2004, Joe Welzen, The Gutsy Stomach Walker, page 50. From the entry chick
  • I winter, ruffed grouse sometimes roost at night on the ground under the insulating snow.2003 August 1, Dennis Walrod, Grouse Hunter's Guide: Solid Facts, Insights, and Observations on How to Hunt Ruffled Grouse, Stackpole…. From the entry spring
  • Without the murder of crows roosting in its branches, Nevermore Tree looked as bare as a skeleton.2001, Daniel Handler, The Vile Village, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry murder
  • I suppose you could blame it on my generation, chickens from the 60s finally coming into roost.1995, Loudon Wainwright III, Cobwebs. From the entry 60s
  • He did not report whether any bats remained in the roost after the outflight.1979, Hugh H. Genoways, Robert J. Baker, Biological Investigations in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas. From the entry outflight
  • Felix (nothing if not modern) had succumbed already to the feeling that youth ruled the roost.1915, John Galsworthy, chapter 16, in The Freelands. From the entry rule the roost
  • Then one day, they invited me to their roost.2026 April 12, Shane Kosakowski, “Crowmaster” (11:21 from the start), in Universal Basic Guys, season 2, episode 18, spoken by Dr. Michael…. From the entry minifig
  • Once properly acclimatised, these pigeons are quite hardy, but they should always be encouraged to roost under cover at night.2013, David Alderton, Pigeons and Doves: Care and Breeding. From the entry nightfright
  • I climb onto a dangling steel cable upon which groggy cormorants roost digesting crawfuls of contaminated gizzard shad.2006, Jean Lamore, AKA, page 399. From the entry crawful
  • "Will those risks ever come home to roost?2005 February 25, Paul Blustein, “Foreign Investment^s Flip Side; U.S. Trade Deficit Swells Along With Consumption, Debt”, in Washington…. From the entry come home to roost
  • At that moment in fashion, French couturiers ruled the roost.2004 February 16, Kate Betts, “9 Rei Kawakubo”, in Time. From the entry rule the roost
  • Chooks fight for good pozzies in the roosts.1986, Tim Winton, 'That Eye, the Sky', Penguin Books Australia Ltd 1988 edition (Chapter 18, at p.140). From the entry pozzie
  • There would be no more visiting in that direction for a while, and back he would roost in his 'bug-walk'.1969, Kovave, volumes 1-5, page 38. From the entry bug-walk
  • “Remember that curses, like chickens, come home to roost.1907 April 12, “The Bradys and "Kid Joaquin"; or, The Greasers of Robbers Canyon.”, in Secret Service: Old and Young King Brady…. From the entry curses, like chickens, come home to roost
  • A scoop of pelicans roosts on the rocks late Sunday afternoon at Natural Bridges State Beach as a surfer rides a wave.2025 November 24, Shmuel Thaler, Santa Cruz Sentinel. From the entry scoop
  • BGEPA prohibits disturbance that may lead to biologically significant impacts, such as interference with feeding, sheltering, roosting, and breeding or abandonment of a nest.2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy, page 98. From the entry BGEPA
  • Elphaba is shunned by the other students at a Hogwartsian sorcery school called Shiz University, while the prom-queen perky Galinda rules the roost.2010 September 4, Don Aucoin, “‘Wicked’ tough to beat, as is its star”, in The Boston Globe, volume 278, number 66, page G5. From the entry Hogwartsian
  • Trying to sneak a decoy within sight of a tom's roost tree can have you eating a McGriddle long before the drive-through stops serving breakfast.2008, Field & Stream, page 93. From the entry McGriddle
  • The Consarvatives painted thurselves bloo, and the Radicals yaller, an' thay as danced the longest, the Roomans sent to Parlyment to rool the roost.1918, J. Arthur Gibbs, A Cotswold Village. From the entry bloo
  • In the first season, we searched possible bat roosting sites and sampling sites in Kinmen and Liehyu and interviewed local people to gather information of potential bat habitat.2006 December, “金門地區蝙蝠相調查研究 [Investigation of bat fauna in Kinmen]”, in 內政部營建署金門國家公園管理處委託研究報告, page XIII. From the entry Liehyu
  • "Roost No More" was a yellow gook that Joe's people would spread around, for a fee, on the ledges of houses and commercial buildings plagued by pigeons.1983, Len O'Connor, A Reporter in Sweet Chicago, →ISBN, page 351. From the entry gook
  • Bob Smith who was office manager at Nelson and Colne College once said in a meeting 'We've plaited sawdust for that long all the pigeons have come home to roost'.2010, Stanley Graham, Naive Occasional Papers. Volume Two, page 220. From the entry plait sawdust

Meaning of roost

  1. noun The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).
  2. noun A group of birds roosting together.
  3. noun A bedroom.

Full definition of roost

Questions about roost in a sentence

How do you use roost in a sentence?
Roost is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Opponents see the latest indictments as a case of the chickens coming home to roost.”
What is a short sentence with roost?
“"Will those risks ever come home to roost?”
What does roost mean?
Roost means the place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).

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