roost
noun
a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
had been roosting
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past perfect progressiveof roost.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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As we passed, they would rise in clouds, circle about for a moment, and again settle upon the wires where they had been roosting.
From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou
Through the window the sun was shining into his eyes, and the flies which, overnight, had been roosting quietly on the walls and ceiling now turned their attention to the visitor.
From Dead Souls by D. J. Hogarth
The native constable, who had been roosting in the son on the court-house steps, appeared at the door.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
And as I drove down the main street of that squalid little western town I must have looked like something the crows had been roosting on.
From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher
It was a wretched car in which hens had been roosting, and it was drawn by a steaming horse that had sores under its mended harness.
From The Passionate Friends by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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