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noun ruːstrust A place where birds regularly settle or congregate to rest at night, or where bats congregate to rest in the day. birds were hurrying to their evening roosts Example sentencesExamples - I heard a gobbler come out of its roost to join the birds welcoming in the dawn.
- Chickens looked down on us from their roost in the branches of a mango tree.
- As the booms and bangs from the fireworks continued, thousands of startled birds, awoken prematurely from their roosts beneath bridges and enclaves in nearby buildings, dived and swerved to avoid the onlookers.
- Evening counts of bats leaving the roosts ranged from 4 to 120 bats (probably more than one species roosted together).
- In non-breeding season, starlings form large flocks capable of much noise and, well, let's just say you don't want to park your car under one of their roosts.
- Other ecological issues raised include the loss of hedgerows, bat roosts and habitats/feeding sites for various other species of birds and animals of conservation concern…
- A great place to observe crows is at their winter roosts, which may range in size from hundreds or thousands to more than a million birds.
- Turkeys will change roost locations depending on where they stopped feeding for the day, but sometimes they will return to the same roost locations.
- Shadows fluttered against the sunset as a few late birds fluttered to their roosts in the trees.
- He couldn't wait to get back to school so that he could tell his friends all about the bat roost in his house.
- They are highly social birds, often gathering in the evenings, except during nesting season, in large roosts that sometimes harbor hundreds of birds.
- We hope the future will be one of plentiful, continuous, and widespread resources and undisturbed roosts for the welfare of our shared bat species, ecosystems, and ecological processes.
- Birds with permanent roosts became the couple's rather more distant but equally delightful acquaintances.
- High concentrations of the organism can be found in bird roosts, caves inhabited by bats, school yards, areas with rotten or decaying wood, and chicken coops.
- Winter roost sites used by between 20 and 40 bald eagles were damaged; in all, 40 animal and plant species in the immediate area saw their habitat damaged or destroyed by the fire.
- Vandals have destroyed entire colonies in minutes, and urban expansion has eliminated thousands of natural roosts in caves and forests.
- What would happen if a blackbird laid two eggs, one ending up in a condor's roost while the other lands in a human's egg basket?
- Before anyone else could say anything, the door burst open and the birds all screeched and flew to the top of the roost.
- A bald eagle glides by en route to its evening roost on the branch of a cottonwood tree.
- Bats are generally faithful to their roosts and a colony may use the same site year after year.
Synonyms pole, rod, branch, roost, rest, resting place
verb ruːstrust [no object](of a bird or bat) settle or congregate for rest or sleep. migrating martins and swallows were settling to roost Example sentencesExamples - It talks about how many acres of wetlands it preserves, the biodiversity studies it funds, or the endangered species that roost on its properties.
- At night, they feed on the birds as they roost or nest.
- The eagles tend to roost in huge ponderosas in northeast-facing canyons among the hills that dot Wyoming's mile-high prairies.
- Birds roosted in the gables and in the huge old trees around the property.
- Faced with the blank white page, I tried to visualize the knoll where I sat, gazing across a broad area of the river to a point where some birds were roosting.
- He spread his wings and flew to a tree, roosting on a branch.
- The birds roosted in contaminated buildings and then flew through holes in the roofs to a garden in a nearby village where they were fed by bird-lovers.
- The young bird either roosts with its parents, perched in between them, or by itself some distance away.
- Some of them roost so very close together, and other birds like the curlews like roosting about a metre apart.
- A great winter flock of starlings roosted in the trees around the clearing.
- It is a great feeling to see the birds roosting, the bees gathering honey… We follow the bee's path.
- Many birds like to feed in open areas but need protective cover to roost, nest, and raise their young.
- All the big trees that the bats are roosting on now are to be covered by nets to prevent birds from flying out of the new aviary.
- Flocks of pigeons, disturbed from where they roosted on nests built seemingly in every available nook carved into the stone archways above, exploded into the air and began circling the towers in a sweeping rush of wings.
- I hesitated outside, listening to the spooky sounds of the pigeons roosting under the roof, but my dinner companions called me a coward and yanked open the door.
- Pigeons that roost in this 16th century temple have been hit by a mysterious disease, killing more than 2,000 of them in one week.
- During winter, these birds roost and forage on beaches, dunes, and sandy and muddy flats of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
- And everyone understands how it feels to watch birds coming in to roost as a sky darkens.
- Our turkeys roost on our roof - and we do see tracks - huge ones!
- Besides a house and a tool shed, the other building on their small acreage was a chicken coop where the egg-laying hens roosted.
Synonyms land, come down, come to rest, touch down, light, arrive, descend
Phrases (of an action in the past) have an unexpected adverse consequence for the person responsible. for the overextended borrowers, the chickens have come home to roost Example sentencesExamples - But if we wait until they have thoroughly ravaged the rest of the world, there will be no one left to show solidarity with us when the chickens come home to roost.
- Everywhere the chickens released by the government's private finance initiative are not so much coming home to roost as crashing into the henhouse and sliding down the wall in a heap of blood and feathers.
- But, in the end, this Illusion was dangerous and self-defeating - speculation-induced market distortions coming home to roost.
- The chickens are coming home to roost and even the inflated stock market is having a hard time avoiding the flurry of feathers.
- Seems like a clear case of chickens coming home to roost, most unhappily for those like the old or handicapped who will now be left wanting.
- He may soon join the rogues' gallery of aging racists for whom the chickens have come home to roost.
- But while we seem to have averted a large economic slowdown, we've done so only by creating massive imbalances, a whole bunch of chickens that will eventually be coming home to roost.
- For the Florida Governor, the educational chickens have come home to roost.
- The comment has been made (and I simply do not know whether it has any validity) is that some people saw the chickens coming home to roost, and got out in good time.
- Your greed and power lust are now coming home to roost.
- Now that the chickens of the liberalised regime are coming home to roost, the employment situation looks like it can get worse.
Origin Old English hrōst, related to Dutch roest; of unknown ultimate origin. Rhymes boost, langouste, mot juste, Proust, self-induced, used noun ruːstrust (in the Orkneys and Shetlands) a tidal race.
Origin Mid 17th century: from Old Norse rǫst. nounrustro͞ost A place where birds regularly settle or congregate to rest at night, or where bats congregate to rest in the day. Example sentencesExamples - They are highly social birds, often gathering in the evenings, except during nesting season, in large roosts that sometimes harbor hundreds of birds.
- A bald eagle glides by en route to its evening roost on the branch of a cottonwood tree.
- In non-breeding season, starlings form large flocks capable of much noise and, well, let's just say you don't want to park your car under one of their roosts.
- High concentrations of the organism can be found in bird roosts, caves inhabited by bats, school yards, areas with rotten or decaying wood, and chicken coops.
- As the booms and bangs from the fireworks continued, thousands of startled birds, awoken prematurely from their roosts beneath bridges and enclaves in nearby buildings, dived and swerved to avoid the onlookers.
- Before anyone else could say anything, the door burst open and the birds all screeched and flew to the top of the roost.
- Other ecological issues raised include the loss of hedgerows, bat roosts and habitats/feeding sites for various other species of birds and animals of conservation concern…
- He couldn't wait to get back to school so that he could tell his friends all about the bat roost in his house.
- Bats are generally faithful to their roosts and a colony may use the same site year after year.
- Birds with permanent roosts became the couple's rather more distant but equally delightful acquaintances.
- Evening counts of bats leaving the roosts ranged from 4 to 120 bats (probably more than one species roosted together).
- What would happen if a blackbird laid two eggs, one ending up in a condor's roost while the other lands in a human's egg basket?
- Turkeys will change roost locations depending on where they stopped feeding for the day, but sometimes they will return to the same roost locations.
- Shadows fluttered against the sunset as a few late birds fluttered to their roosts in the trees.
- Chickens looked down on us from their roost in the branches of a mango tree.
- Winter roost sites used by between 20 and 40 bald eagles were damaged; in all, 40 animal and plant species in the immediate area saw their habitat damaged or destroyed by the fire.
- A great place to observe crows is at their winter roosts, which may range in size from hundreds or thousands to more than a million birds.
- We hope the future will be one of plentiful, continuous, and widespread resources and undisturbed roosts for the welfare of our shared bat species, ecosystems, and ecological processes.
- Vandals have destroyed entire colonies in minutes, and urban expansion has eliminated thousands of natural roosts in caves and forests.
- I heard a gobbler come out of its roost to join the birds welcoming in the dawn.
Synonyms pole, rod, branch, roost, rest, resting place
verbrustro͞ost [no object](of a bird or bat) settle or congregate for rest or sleep. migrating martins and swallows were settling to roost Example sentencesExamples - A great winter flock of starlings roosted in the trees around the clearing.
- All the big trees that the bats are roosting on now are to be covered by nets to prevent birds from flying out of the new aviary.
- And everyone understands how it feels to watch birds coming in to roost as a sky darkens.
- Flocks of pigeons, disturbed from where they roosted on nests built seemingly in every available nook carved into the stone archways above, exploded into the air and began circling the towers in a sweeping rush of wings.
- The birds roosted in contaminated buildings and then flew through holes in the roofs to a garden in a nearby village where they were fed by bird-lovers.
- Besides a house and a tool shed, the other building on their small acreage was a chicken coop where the egg-laying hens roosted.
- It talks about how many acres of wetlands it preserves, the biodiversity studies it funds, or the endangered species that roost on its properties.
- He spread his wings and flew to a tree, roosting on a branch.
- The eagles tend to roost in huge ponderosas in northeast-facing canyons among the hills that dot Wyoming's mile-high prairies.
- It is a great feeling to see the birds roosting, the bees gathering honey… We follow the bee's path.
- Birds roosted in the gables and in the huge old trees around the property.
- Pigeons that roost in this 16th century temple have been hit by a mysterious disease, killing more than 2,000 of them in one week.
- I hesitated outside, listening to the spooky sounds of the pigeons roosting under the roof, but my dinner companions called me a coward and yanked open the door.
- During winter, these birds roost and forage on beaches, dunes, and sandy and muddy flats of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
- Many birds like to feed in open areas but need protective cover to roost, nest, and raise their young.
- Our turkeys roost on our roof - and we do see tracks - huge ones!
- At night, they feed on the birds as they roost or nest.
- Faced with the blank white page, I tried to visualize the knoll where I sat, gazing across a broad area of the river to a point where some birds were roosting.
- The young bird either roosts with its parents, perched in between them, or by itself some distance away.
- Some of them roost so very close together, and other birds like the curlews like roosting about a metre apart.
Phrases (of an action, scheme, etc.) recoil unfavorably upon the originator. ensuring that the liability does not come home to roost Example sentencesExamples - The chickens are coming home to roost and even the inflated stock market is having a hard time avoiding the flurry of feathers.
- He may soon join the rogues' gallery of aging racists for whom the chickens have come home to roost.
- The comment has been made (and I simply do not know whether it has any validity) is that some people saw the chickens coming home to roost, and got out in good time.
- Now that the chickens of the liberalised regime are coming home to roost, the employment situation looks like it can get worse.
- Your greed and power lust are now coming home to roost.
- For the Florida Governor, the educational chickens have come home to roost.
- But if we wait until they have thoroughly ravaged the rest of the world, there will be no one left to show solidarity with us when the chickens come home to roost.
- But, in the end, this Illusion was dangerous and self-defeating - speculation-induced market distortions coming home to roost.
- Everywhere the chickens released by the government's private finance initiative are not so much coming home to roost as crashing into the henhouse and sliding down the wall in a heap of blood and feathers.
- Seems like a clear case of chickens coming home to roost, most unhappily for those like the old or handicapped who will now be left wanting.
- But while we seem to have averted a large economic slowdown, we've done so only by creating massive imbalances, a whole bunch of chickens that will eventually be coming home to roost.
Origin Old English hrōst, related to Dutch roest; of unknown ultimate origin. nounrustro͞ost (in the Orkneys and Shetlands) a tidal race.
Origin Mid 17th century: from Old Norse rǫst. |