How to Use roost in a Sentence

roost

1 of 2 noun

• In 2022, the left even has a shot in Colombia, where the right has long ruled the roost.
  — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
• None of this changes the fact that the NFL still rules the roost of American sports.
  — Sally Bronston, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2018
• To be sure, the NFL still rules the roost of American sports.
  — NBC News, 4 Feb. 2018
• For a long time, Fox News has ruled the cable-news roost.
  — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2020
• The toms were gobbling from the roost at first light, and pitched down into the field.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 18 Feb. 2021
• Sides: The sports bar sides ruled the roost with crispy tater tots ($3.99 for a half order).
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 22 June 2018
• Lots of great art gets cut if gender or race rule the roost.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 16 Sep. 2020
• That’s a sobering turn of events for a sports franchise that ruled the Bay Area’s roost for most of the ’60s and ’70s.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 25 July 2019
• Hazy IPA has ruled the craft beer roost in recent years (much to the chagrin of some of us).
  — Adam Lukach, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2021
• In 2018, the show’s storyline changed from a king and princess ruling the roost to a queen in charge.
  — Samantha Masunagastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• So, at the climax of 2021, does McDormand rule the wicked roost?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2021
• La Porte and North Shore figure to rule the roost Thursday morning for two of the team berths.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 15 Oct. 2019
• At ground level, crews waited to see which trees the birds would choose for their roost.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
• Roberto Surace rules the roost with his quirky disco groove.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• Once upon a time, these bats would have made their homes in forests, but none of these roosts were in such an area.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
• Early geese come into a field low and hot off their roost or day loaf.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2020
• The gobbler thunders a response, flies down from the roost and gobbles again.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
• But Kaczmarek’s Lois, the mother of five boys, ruled the roost and was just as important.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
• Stealthily, from its roost on the ceiling, one bat reached out and purloined his sun hat.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• Excess is the privilege of those who rule the pop-culture roost.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 14 Mar. 2023
• Smaller, rugged specimens of the plant roost on the rocky hillsides like ravens.
  — Miles W. Griffis, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2020
• But first impressions leave little room for doubt: This is a home where art rules the roost.
  — Natalia Rachlin, ELLE Decor, 17 Feb. 2021
• Levin’s tiramisu, buzzy with espresso, would be at home at an Italian roost.
  — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
• In Vivaldi’s day, when castrati ruled the roost, the entire cast would have been male.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• This year Spotify has set out to rule the roost in this medium, which Apple first streamed via iTunes in the mid-2000s.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Or toms will gobble hard on the roost, but clam up after flying down.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 8 Mar. 2021
• In more open spaces, flocks will crowd together for warmth and roost in groups overnight.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 1 Feb. 2019
• Art critics—certain art critics, the happy few, the band of brothers—ruled the roost.
  — Roger Kimball, WSJ, 15 May 2018
• That said, there’s always been power to the Globes’ early January roost.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
• Today, pigeons have taken roost in the council’s domed entrance.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2023

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roost

2 of 2 verb

• Pigeons roost on the building's ledge.
• When the young are strong enough, the robins may roost in big groups.
  — oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2021
• Leave the gate open and your chickens will come home to roost.
  — Magi Helena, oregonlive, 23 Dec. 2019
• All ducks and geese have to have open water of some kind to roost and loaf on.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 26 June 2020
• The birds have been roosting on the tower for more than 6 years.
  — Leah Asmelash and Hollie Silverman, CNN, 10 Jan. 2020
• To do that, the US will need to bring enrichment home to roost.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 17 Mar. 2022
• Two ravens flew in a noisy pair, headed to roost — who knows where?
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2022
• Brannick knows his wife may be among the corpses coming home to roost.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2021
• In April, Goldman put the odds of a recession coming to roost in the U.S. at 38%.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 17 May 2022
• The Jayhawks roost in the streaming realm at 9 p.m. Tickets via watch.mandolin.com.
  — Gary Graff, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2020
• The Chicken roosted in the stands during the first three or four years of his career.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2019
• Ravens can fly 5 or 10 miles or more to roost — and commute, Sinnott said.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2022
• Across the street, people roost on the curb, several hang out on their own porch.
  — Jon Bream, Star Tribune, 24 Aug. 2020
• The chickens are coming home to roost, this is real here.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 12 Oct. 2019
• High above, macaws -- one of over 460 bird species residing in the region -- roost in fissures in the rock.
  — Steph Dyson, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
• The chickens have come home to roost for the former president.
  — Aanu Adeoye, Quartz, 30 June 2021
• McKechnie tells the New York Times that the next step will be to study where the hummingbirds roost each night.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2020
• The financial system is where those costs come to roost.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2021
• Bats had been roosting in the trees where locals set up spigots to collect the tasty sap.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 29 Jan. 2020
• Condors might be seen soaring on the morning thermals along the ridge and roosting in trees in the evenings.
  — Sharon Boorstin, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• Moths, on the other hand, don’t build burrows or nests and instead roost in trees and shrubs during the day.
  — WIRED, 12 June 2023
• The thoughts that come to roost in my head in those moments are always the gloomiest, also the most precise.
  — Jhumpa Lahiri, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• In short, all of Europe’s green chickens are coming home to roost.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2021
• Investors seem to think Tesla will rule the auto roost a decade from now and leave the legacy giants in the dust.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2022
• For humans, it’s later in life that high cholesterol comes home to roost, so to speak, in the form of heart disease.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 26 Aug. 2019
• Ruling the horror roost for nearly three decades is no mean feat.
  — Simon Hill, Wired, 21 Oct. 2021
• All these price hikes are now coming home to roost — in consumers' wallets.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 23 Apr. 2021
• Hens and drakes pair up and spread out, looking to feed, roost, and loaf in places where they won’t be disturbed by unpaired males.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2020
• The birds roost on the braided river’s sandbars at night, then take to the skies at sunup and head toward neighboring corn fields.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
• Spring Courtship Display Any turkey hunter out to roost birds in the spring has probably heard a woodcock.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023

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