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Meaning roost meaning

What does roost mean?
Definitions in simple English

roost Verb

— When a bird roosts, it means that it sleeps, usually on a high perch like the branch of a tree.

roost

— verb (= perch) sit, as on a branch The birds perched high in the tree — verb settle down or stay, as if on a roost — noun a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep — noun a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds

Synonyms roost synonyms

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roost English » English

perch rest nest sleep sit hen house alight temporary accommodations steady down slumber sleep or rest in a roost settle nesting place incubate hennery henhouse hen-roost hen-house drowse catnap aerie

Topics roost topics

What do people use roost to talk about?
Work and occupation Animal husbandry Poultry raising

Chicken
Universe, creation Animal

Animal actions
Universe, creation Animal Animal actions

Animal movement

Conjugation roost conjugation

How do you conjugate roost?

roost · verb

Examples roost examples

How do I use roost in a sentence?

Simple sentences

At home it is Liisa who rules the roost.
The chickens have come home to roost.

Movie subtitles

We'll put him to roost.
Them chickens of yours is going to be on and off the roost every 15 minutes.
Look at them up there, looks like a hen roost.
How long do we have to roost here?
So I hang around the Roost once in a while.
It will mean a warm pound in winter, a light in every stall, sty and roost.
Why don't you be a good fellow and pick some other place to roost?
So Scott-Padget's gonna rule the roost, run the ship his way.
So you think you're tough enough to push the old cock off the roost.
Don't let the girls rule the roost.
I come home to roost.
I think Radar's dog came home to roost.
The Mandragora Helix has come home to roost.
Chicken done come home to roost.
Hands off! We rule the roost here.
Get this. I'd break up your snug little roost if I could. but I don't stand a chance.
Them chickens of yours is going to be on and off the roost every 1 5 minutes.
She'll never leave the roost until I'm taken care of.
Yeah, we wanted the mother hen to leave the roost, so that the little chick could.
But whatever Robby is, he rules the roost around here.
Rooster ruler of the roost.
Why should I care if some. smooth-mannered, well-talking tenant moves right in. and tries to take over my image as ruler of the roost.
Destined to live in a cage, though I'm a bird I cannot roost, nor peck, nor fly, nor nest.
He likes to roost in trees.
It seems that one of our chickens has come home to roost.
Flamingos normally roost standing on one another's feet.
You can sleep where you like, but I certainly don't intend to roost. in a tree like a confounded sparrow.
Like an old bird, I roost on top of a tree. But I'm glad that there are still some who believe in life in love.
Only when WE rule the roost will order be able to return.
She likes to rule the roost, Dad.
I'll put a lamp in the window, you'll be my first call when she comes home to roost.
Well, it looks like the cows have come home to roost.
Well, chickens haven't come home to roost yet, Al.
All these years, getting five good meals a day, running the farm, ruling the roost, everyone doing. exactly as you say and sacrificing their lives to yours?
See, students? That's what happens when gonads rule the roost!
And in this awful, incomprehensible dusk even the birds. the birds too are confused and go to roost.
At 09:40 today, an old rocket booster from 1989 was scheduled to come home to roost right here.

News and current affairs

Sustained lower prices may bring chickens home to roost.
Now, the costs of the soccer jamboree, coming on top of the country's ongoing economic slowdown, are coming home to roost.
One bright day last September, Icarosaurus, the famous fossil of a Triassic Age gliding reptile, which had exited the halls of the American Museum of Natural History a decade earlier, was brought back to New York to roost.
In area after area, including global climate change, public health, international debt relief, financial system reform, the neglect of the rich countries, and especially of the U.S., will sadly come home to roost.
Japanese manufacturers rule the roost in home video games.
The big question is whether the rich countries that have long ruled the roost at the Fund would actually surrender some of their power.
Unfortunately, the chickens of Obama's first term have already come home to roost.
The puncturing of Japan's asset bubble of the late 1980s merely brought these chickens home to roost.
In mid-August, I had the temerity to predict that risks had come home to roost, and that a large US investment bank might soon fail or be forced into a highly distressed merger.
With the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, however, the chickens came home to roost.
But it is no coincidence that Obasanjo removed Okonjo-Iweala from a job for which she has proven competence and, more importantly, in which she ruled the roost: she had led the opposition from within the government to the constitutional amendment.
One only has to recall the vitriol visited upon Rev. Jeremiah Wright during the last presidential campaign for his now infamous sermon in which he said that, with the attacks, the chickens of US foreign policy had come home to roost.

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