roost
noun
a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
had roosted
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past perfectof roost.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Many of these were condors that had roosted in Arizona’s Vermilion Cliffs, the same place where captive-bred birds were first released in 1996.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 29, 2023
She wanted to put off work a little longer to hunt for a northern saw-whet owl that had roosted nearby for a few weeks earlier in the season.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2019
Once, May injured a bat by mistake, crushing it when she opened a window it had roosted on.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
Some rain fell during the night, but this inconvenience was trifling compared to the discordant screams of a bird which had roosted over our fires, and which the people called the cat-bird.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 by Phillip Parker King
The old tree rubbed their leafless branches against the window panes, and the fowls which had roosted there for the night, were fain to clap their wings, and make prodigious efforts to preserve their equilibrium.
From Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
