roost in English

noun
1
a place where birds regularly settle or congregate to rest at night, or where bats congregate to rest in the day.
The average pet bird roosts on the same plastic or wooden dowel every night and most of the day.
verb
1
(of a bird or bat) settle or congregate for rest or sleep.
migrating martins and swallows were settling to roost

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1. Chickens roost at night.

2. APRIS, aa my roost.

3. Appeasement has come home to roost

4. Flocks leave the roost in waves.

5. The peacocks roost in nearby shrubs.

6. Rooster Crowings from Gamecock's new Atlanta roost

7. 2 Appeasement has come home to roost.

8. Obstruct areas where vultures and Buzzards roost

9. For shelter, Bluebirds will roost in empty nest boxes

10. Claret (Wine Red) cock on the roost

11. The pigeons are coming home to roost.

12. Field observations indicate that Bluebirds often roost communally

13. Dark, Buzzardlike cormorants roost in its stunted trees

14. Vices, however, like curses, come back to roost.

15. Instinct led the pigeons back to the roost.

16. His acerbity to his daughter came home to roost.

17. Bats roost naturally both in caves and hollow trees.

18. All his earlier mistakes are coming home to roost.

19. 10 Instinct led the pigeons back to the roost.

20. Throughout the year the birds feed and roost in large aggregations.

21. Bandits Roost Campground is located on the south side of W

22. Synonyms for Backlashed include boomeranged, backfired, rebounded, rebound, had an adverse effect, had unwelcome repercussions, kicked back, came home to roost, come home to roost and ricocheted

23. I must admit that millions of us roost in deep, pitch-black caverns.

24. Non-breeding birds will roost on their host animals at night.

25. Jordy, one of these days, the chickens are gonna come home to roost.

26. During the day, it will roost in rock crevices, bridges, and buildings.

27. You can either rule this roost with me, or just be one more dumb cluck.

28. It will mean a warm pound in winter, a light in every stall, sty and roost.

29. However , another theory is that a violent thunderstorm could have disoriented a roost of blackbirds .

30. They came to roost in the late 1960s in the form of industrial decline and regional decay.

31. The birds roost communally at night in shallow holes they excavate near each other in dead wood.

32. 13 Shrewmice live in holes in the ground, and bats roost in dark and desolate caves.

33. Very few fly straight into the roost; most of the ravens are in no hurry to land.

34. All I know is all the chickens are coming home to roost at the worst possible time.

35. The birds spend much of their day foraging in dense, varied vegetation and return to roost together at dusk.

36. It just looked me over closely, then flew into the roost in the pines to join the others.

37. From daytime feeding grounds up to twenty miles away, they converge on Abbey Park to roost for the night.

38. Population sizes and trends Spotted Bats can be inventoried by acoustic surveys at potential roost sites or foraging areas.

39. Some groups of roosting corvids can be very large, with a roost of 65,000 rooks counted in Scotland.

40. Tyler rules the roost, while Laura remonstrates and Adulates in equal measure: it's a match made in hedonistic heaven

41. Lowry, cackling and scratching, is a hoot as the rooster who lords it over the complaining hens in his roost.

42. It was this atmosphere that formed the perfect background to a display of starlings gathering at their night-time roost.

43. Peafowl roost in groups during the night on tall trees but may sometimes make use of rocks, buildings or pylons.

44. These Coops provide ample open space for chickens to roam as well as to provide a protective housing for chickens to roost

45. The skeleton and body form is usually unspecialized, enabling pigeons to feed and roost Arboreally yet also collect food from the ground

46. These coops provide ample open space for Chickens to roam as well as to provide a protective housing for Chickens to roost.

47. Bobwhites roost on the ground, in grassy or weedy glades, in old reverting fields, on grassy hillsides and in openings in timbered areas

48. But see, these fellows are kinder debating down there, and looking up, like hens when they are going to fly up on to the roost.

49. Kennedy's Assassination was the result of "chickens coming home to roost" in a violent society, Malcolm X left the movement in March

50. Bluebirds that stay in the same territory year-round roost in natural cavities, cavities made by woodpeckers, or nesting boxes offered by humans