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Meanings of roost in in English

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Usage of roost in in English
1
The proverbial chickens have come home to roost in Dublin's College Green.
The Irish Times
2
The Hegira is completed,-wehave all taken roost in the old Tower.
The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 12
3
The grouse are much like ours, only larger, and roost in trees.
A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba
4
This here's the tree the turks hes picked out tuh roost in.
Afloat; or, Adventures on Watery Trails
5
This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
6
Now the chickens are coming home to roost in a particularly unpleasant way.
The Irish Times
7
This comes home to roost in perceiving children as units of potential profit.
The Irish Times
8
At such times they roost in the crevices of the great sea cliffs.
The Naturalist on the Thames
9
Welcome the eagle-eyed predators come to roost in the coops of the cities.
Unmanned
10
In other words, we take roost in and rekindle our own divine wombs.
Feminist dot com
11
The numbers of starlings that roost in barns has also declined.
The Irish Times
12
The bird would roost in a pine tree near the camp.
The new yorker
13
I can't roost in this tree all night, like a bird.
The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone
14
How'd you like to chyse up there to his roost in the 'ills?
Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
15
Tell them how the Bardi and the Peruzzi ruled the roost in old Florence.
Under the Skylights
16
The turkeys have come to roost in promising situations before.
The Irish Times
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