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    roost


    1. "In that case my guess is he's gone out into the Cerrado on the hunch that his starship will land in its old roost


    2. fluttered down to roost on the parrot cage perch in her brain


    3. Sheila doesn’t say what it was they argued about, but I get the impression that it may have been something to do with Don wanting to help Bunty out … Bunty’s fatal attraction coming home to roost again no doubt


    4. He kept the mats down more often and had lots of old blankets scattered around and let the klizhorns roost as they pleased


    5. bird searching for its roost and the steady hoof beats of


    6. ” I reached out to stroke Ozzie’s head, but he had already raced off to his roost on the television, determined to clean the nasty toy gunk from his immaculate coat


    7. But it was after I checked into his fiancé Helen that the really jaw dropping part of this whole story came home to roost and the most fantastic part of this was that the same Helen that Billy Boy loved was my great grandma


    8. Terry had always been terrified of bats, ever since he’d climbed into the loft as a teenager, disturbing a roost


    9. fly back to its roost at Overton Manor where Sally would prob-


    10. All of my old crimes coming home to roost? But he seemed neutral as far as I was concerned

    11. She had repeatedly dozed off, but woken when her chin slid from the roost of her cupped hand


    12. van zoomed into roost


    13. We shan't leave you to roost on that hill-top like a lonely crow--don't you worry


    14. occupant of the roost was himself glowing with radiance


    15. In the twinkling of an eye, the circle vanishes entirely and Ralph feels the tremor of the emeralds in his grasp, as if their power has come home to roost


    16. The portal opened in the stale-smelling beer cellar of the Ravens’ Roost, and Marcus, captain of Bellack’s personal guard stepped through


    17. “Aye, ravens roost in the trees on those hills


    18. shortly from his room and took roost on the couch


    19. Chardonnay had worked on the farm for years, a model member of the brood who had worked her way steadily up the ranks through hard work, dedication and an unswerving obedience to the rules of the roost


    20. Standing by Freak’s roost, Walt was

    21. “Dragon, find a place to roost


    22. The Knob was like Robber’s Roost, a hidden cabin tucked into a knob jutting out of the mountain in a valley between a swamp and a deadfall where trees had blown down from high winds


    23. There was a little building, where the birds could roost at night, and it was white with their droppings


    24. He would probably roost in a tree tonight and come looking for scratch feed at daylight


    25. ‗What if‘s‘ crowded her consciousness like cave bats going to roost


    26. Both methods involve the encouragement of pigeons to roost


    27. into the dovecotes where they can roost, thereby removing and


    28. karma will sooner or later come home to roost


    29. Obviously, the antiquity of history had lost track of the other prophets, leaving the legend of Muhammad to rule the roost as the ‘Seal of the Prophets’, and to mould the sharia, clouding the mind of the Musalmans in the bargain


    30. in a stall, a hen on a roost?

    31. “satanism can be translated simply as curses come home to roost


    32. was the Twin Towers’ fall, just chickens home to roost?


    33. Surely I’d written enough in my long career, on the irony of humankind’s chickens coming home to roost and doses of their own deadly medicine being administered by fate, to doers of the worst of my race’s worst deeds, that I should have seen the handwriting on the wall with this


    34. Those present quizzically smile, are you guys making that happen (think of all the tagging along you attract and the joy you spread, how infectious your love of life)? Cats curl into a roost and food sings from bellies warm with laughter


    35. The birds were going to roost and creatures of the night had started to appear


    36. Unsettling thoughts came to roost


    37. He snarled, his mouth open wide, his hands clenched in fists, and he ran at me, all the animalism that the rest of the pack exhibited every day coming home to roost on him finally


    38. "Actually, your mother gave it to me when I was over at her roost


    39. Silas flew from newspaper to nest and back, tearing strips of paper with a savagery that worried Crystal, who watched, immobile on her roost, as Silas bit the paper into shape, violently pounding the fibers into the weave of the nest


    40. Birds sleep at night, they go to roost

    41. Russia was a country where criminal groups ruled the roost


    42. After showing the state of this particular neighbourhood, with gangsters and drug dealings ruling the roost, and how people even feared going to the grocery store, the programme returned to the studio


    43. Think about your little pigeon roost out there, the men you’ve been serving a regimen of going through the exact same ritual in the exact same place every day


    44. move from his roost


    45. The reptilian birds that could fly away, and come back to roost on those trees: were higher and superior to the reptilian birds that had feathers and lived in tress but could not fly away


    46. the fact that she rules the roost


    47. no matter how hard she tried, for it had in point of fact come home to roost where it


    48. But even when they are free range, chickens must have a coop to roost in during the night so they are protected from foxes and other predators


    49. Ensuring that they have sufficient food and water all through the day and a warm safe place to roost at night will help a great deal


    50. Where band-neck'd partridges roost in a ring on the ground with


















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    Synonyms for "roost"

    roost perch rest cock drake

    "roost" definitions

    a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds


    a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep


    sit, as on a branch


    settle down or stay, as if on a roost