Example Sentences

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So he toils and sweats and stinks—imagines that he is roosting on the top rung of the journalistic ladder when he hasn't even learned his trade.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper

He went back to his clerk's stool and is roosting there today.

From Certain Success by Hawkins, Norval A.

Over their roof-trees there murmur elms and chestnuts; the sun has sunk to his rest; a stork is roosting on the gable; and all is beautifully poetic and touching.

From The Gambler by Hogarth, C. J.