Example Sentences

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At this time a huge cock that had been roosting in some part of the kitchen gave a loud crow.

From A Sailor of King George by Bevan, A. Beckford

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 Ballou, Maturin Murray

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 Mitford, Bertram

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 Becher, Arthur E.

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 Hogarth, D. J.