roost

Example Sentences

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There is a chance the crisis widens, its unknowables blooming into view, the crows coming home to roost.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

For generations City played second fiddle in their own backyard to United, but they have ruled the roost over their local rivals since Alex Ferguson departed Old Trafford in 2013.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

The turkeys would roost at night in trees before being encouraged down in the morning with food and then walking on again.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025

But all along it, aging chickens are coming home to roost.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

The bobolinks are singing in the fields, two herons are flying toward their roost, and grasshoppers are stridu- lating at our feet.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George