roosting
- present participle of roost.
Example Sentences
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Roosting in groups, they spend a large portion of their waking time grooming each other, and even regurgitating food — i.e., blood — for the benefit of a few special friends.
From Salon • Aug. 28, 2022
Roosting on high mountains are astronomical telescopes with 16-inch mirrors that can photograph the missile like a planet in space.
From Time Magazine Archive
Roosting birds rustled overhead; the night breeze stirred the leaves; here and there a dead twig fell.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Roosting on a gray old boulder ten feet outside the door were two figures that made me want to rub my eyes.
From The Forest by White, Stewart Edward
Roosting wild fowl roused themselves, and flew away with a clatter of wings.
From Cedric, the Forester by Marshall, Bernard Gay
