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How to pronounce roost in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms perch, rest
Type of sit, sit down
Type Words
Type of perch
Type Words
Type of shelter
Has types henroost
Type Words
Type of take root, root, settle, settle down, steady down

Examples of roost

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In Folsom, the Lake Forest Cafe has ruled the breakfast roost for, oh, 27 years.
From the sacbee.com
Go Green Travel Green held a smackdown to decide which of these ruled the roost.
From the sacbee.com
They perch on the stairway, roost on the bookcase, snooze in the laundry basket.
From the time.com
Texas wanted to rule the roost, but 10 other teams agreed to go along with them.
From the omaha.com
Colorado bats roost in caves, hollow trees, beneath bridges and in mine tunnels.
From the denverpost.com
They can fly as high as most rooftops, and at night they tend to roost in trees.
From the thenewstribune.com
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so,'he told the Radio Times.
From the metro.co.uk
Welcome to the era in which the client's brain, not just heart, rules the roost.
From the businessweek.com
The bats, which can fly at 60kmh, were seen leaving the roost trees in darkness.
From the odt.co.nz
More examples
  • A shelter with perches for fowl or other birds
  • Perch: sit, as on a branch; "The birds perched high in the tree"
  • A perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep
  • Settle down or stay, as if on a roost
  • Birds (class Aves) are winged, bipedal, endothermic (warm-blooded), egg-laying, vertebrate animals. There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most varied of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. ...
  • The Roost is a 2005 horror film directed by Ti West. Zombies and homicidal bats terrorize four teenagers stranded on a mysterious farm.
  • The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch); sleep; to come back home
  • (Roosting) The act of settling for sleep. Roosting sites are safe areas in which organisms congregate and sleep in large numbers.
  • (Roosting) When a bird sleeps ar rests.