Example Sentences

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“Kinglets will roost together in big groups, all puffed up and crowded together like a cluster of bees.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2022

And baseball made a resurgence in the 1980s with the construction of what’s now called Sahlen Field, the downtown stadium where the Blue Jays will roost for much of the next two months.

From Washington Times • Jul. 25, 2020

"Tired as can be—you know I had no sleep last night—we are coming to a little thicket where we will roost for the night."

From Jacques Bonneval by Manning, Anne

If it survive the summer, and some chickens do, it will roost and shiver on the limb of an apple tree.

From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams

Is it not strange," he said, "how genius will roost on any perch?

From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Gibbon, Perceval