roost
noun
a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
were roosting
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past progressiveof roost.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In 2017 pigeons were roosting inside its Saban Building — the former 1939 May Co. building — while it was undergoing a major renovation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
By telegraph, they wired news of the migration of the great flocks and the locations where colonies were roosting.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2017
The boy may have contracted the virus from fruit bats that were roosting in trees near Meliandou, a village in southern Guinea.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2015
Roaches climbed the walls and pigeons were roosting in a makeshift exhaust vent that snaked along the wall.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2011
Millions of birds were roosting in the trees—fat gray-and-white pigeons, except they didn’t coo like regular pigeons.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
