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Sentence Examples American policy was thus based on a disastrous miscalculation, which came home to roost at Pearl Harbor. Seems the floundering yet fertile imagination of this fallen idol had finally found an apropos home to roost in. 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. He couldn't wait to get back to school so that he could tell his friends all about the bat roost in his house. 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. The eagles tend to roost in huge ponderosas in northeast-facing canyons among the hills that dot Wyoming's mile-high prairies. Some of them roost so very close together, and other birds like the curlews like roosting about a metre apart. Many birds like to feed in open areas but need protective cover to roost, nest, and raise their young. 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. 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. For the Florida Governor, the educational chickens have come home to roost. The comment has been made 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. Show More Sentences With the water starting its autumnal cool down the maggot anglers are now ruling the roost as the fish move into deeper water. It is the children who are ruling the roost, calling the shorts, setting conditions. Doctors are in short supply in the interior areas, quacks are ruling the roost there. Our democracy is crumbling with the politics of fear and prejudice ruling the roost, an electoral system which is corrupt and unrepresentative. Mickey is now recovering from his ordeal and is getting back to ruling the roost. Just before sunset, flocks of the red birds gather to roost in the mangrove trees transforming green bush to a glowing red. Hate is manifested in a whole range of insults in football and nobody is spared in an arena where the lowest common denominator rules the roost. We observed birds entering arboreal termitaria at dusk, presumably to roost. Old stories that are often scorned as pure figments of the imagination have a habit of coming home to roost. If only, people sigh, we still had matrons, ruling the roost with rods of iron. Near the headwaters, there's a necklace of four soft-bottomed ponds where egrets stand watch on the shore and owls roost beneath bridges. These predators target their prey either at the roost or while the bats are in flight. They are known to use many human structures like barns, church towers and ledges of tall buildings as their daytime roost. In June, female bats congregate at a maternity roost to give birth and suckle their young. The government has failed, police has failed, intelligence has failed and mobocracy is ruling the roost. How can we, in Britain, refer to ourselves as a democracy, when we still allow a bunch of upper-class twits to rule the roost? And the jackdaw, unheedful, sought to roost the forbidden bough, though hands reached out in anguish and the world hushed. Complete the main frame by adding the two handle braces, the plywood floor, the roost bar and the nest box. The roost site selection of bramblings can be evaluated at four different levels. Swifts tend to be social species and will feed and roost in large mixed-species flocks. Show More Sentences Once all of the eggs have hatched, both parents provision the brood and roost outside of the nest box at night. These bats roost, head-up, inside the smooth tubes formed as young banana or heliconia leaves unfurl. It is not one or even two channels ruling the roost when it comes to Hindi TV viewers. Look for a tall shaft, chimney or similar structure to locate where chimney swifts go to roost in your area. If you know the location of a chimney swift roost, consider participating in A Swift Night Out. New species of bats have been attracted to the renovated roost, including pipistrelle bats and lesser horseshoe bats. There, he sat on his deck smoking cigars and watching the eagles roost in the trees. Instead the council proposed to put wires on ledges to prevent the birds swooping in to roost. Rhinopomatids live in treeless arid regions and roost in caves, rock clefts, wells, houses, and pyramids. During fair weather they frequently roost in hardwood knolls and the edges of hillside benches. Elsewhere in the country an exceptionally large reedbed roost in Hampshire once held over 180 grey wagtails in company with 100 pied wagtails. It's fortunate that they set up those pigeonholes because some of the pigeons have come home to roost. The commission has now set up an infrared camera in the Dumfries roost so that the bats' behaviour can be observed from below. Around sunrise, the concentration of geese we'd hoped would keep our barrels warm lifted off its roost and, in steady waves, flew away. After years of U.S. and global money and credit excess, the consequences are coming home to roost. What a contrast with last year, when Dadrock ruled the roost at the first ever Gig On The Green. They roost gregariously, sometimes in very large colonies, and some species are thought to roost exclusively in caves. Collared aracaris live in groups and five adults may roost in the nest cavity after the eggs hatch. They also sometimes roost in the burrows of other mammals such as hedgehogs, porcupines, and aardvarks. It turned out to be a large roost of house sparrows all trying to jam themselves into two small trees making a racket. Show More Sentences We have seen at least two of the family back in our yard and perhaps see another generation of jenny wrens come home to roost! Flying foxes streamed overhead from the west, heading into town to roost after a night spent feeding in the mountains. Many thousands of wintering wildfowl feed and roost among the country's estuaries and salt marshes. In western Washington, they typically roost in western hemlock and western red cedar. At the dam there are hundreds of woodswallows congregating for their drink and preparing to roost. The young people, they have no religion, and the yahoos are coming home to roost. At suitable sites, mist nets are strung up, and traps laid that harmlessly snare the birds as they come down to roost or rest. On some occasions anis also use tamarin trees to roost or rest during the heat. The surrounding farm fields were full of Canada geese and mallards getting some last minute food before flying off to Black Dog lake for the night to roost. Above, the final skein of Pinkfooted Geese, over wintering from Greenland honked their noisy way to their evening roost on the sand-banks of the River Ribble. They roost on an offshore platform erected to collect guano. She was employed as a cook some years ago, but now she rules the roost. And in today's times where ingratitude rules the roost, teachers, an important human resource who shape our future generations, get sidelined, or are forgotten. 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. Before Pasteur, dreadful smells and miasmas ruled the roost, the only accepted causes of illness, while after Pasteur, disease was all down to germs. Unlike the activities of the woodpeckers, a raccoon that denned in a hollow on the Indiana myotis roost tree made clear attempts to capture bats as they exited the roost. As House Majority Leader, DeLay ruled his roost with an iron fist that makes Nancy Pelosi look like Mary Poppins. Fifteen species of neotropical and three species of Paleotropical bats are known either to roost. in or to make tents in over 80 species of vascular plants. When you win, it's a big party and the lottery sends out the invitations and all the chickens come home to roost. It talks about how many acres of wetlands it preserves, the biodiversity studies it funds, or the endangered species that roost on its properties. Show More Sentences Turkeys will change roost locations depending on where they stopped feeding for the day, but sometimes they will return to the same roost locations. Their tendency to roost in tight flocks and be easily attracted to decoys may have made them vulnerable to market hunters, who had a significant impact on the population. The pedestals of statues are often defaced with posters pasted by political outfits and commercial bodies, particularly in a world where market forces rule the roost. But now the chickens are coming back home to America to roost. But India coach Balwan Singh, whose team rule the roost on the world stage, said that kabaddi can be a perilous business. Just as Garganega rules the roost in Soave, Corvina is the grape variety which drives production in Valpolicella. They and unethical meat hunters will illegally and unsportingly even shoot a bird out of its roost tree, just before it makes its dawn descent. Whereas the Irish Greyhound Board rule the roost in the Republic, the Irish Coursing Club is the licensing authority in Northern Ireland. Opponents see the latest indictments as a case of the chickens coming home to roost. In April 2008, the decision to preserve a rare Vickers machine gun pillbox and turn it into a bat roost was announced by the developers. In winter, the hen harrier is a bird of open country, and will then roost communally, often with merlins and marsh harriers. Most megabats roost with the head tucked towards the belly, whereas most microbats roost with the neck curled towards the back. Male pipistrelle, noctule and vampire bats may claim and defend resources that attract females, such as roost sites, and mate with those females. Bats are among the most vocal of mammals and produce calls to attract mates, find roost partners and defend resources. An estimated 100,000 tourists per year visit the bridge at twilight to watch the bats leave the roost. The 1991 University of Florida bat house is the largest occupied artificial roost in the world, with around 300,000 residents. Outside of the reproductive season, they often roost communally in trees or shrubs. Some congregating sites separate from the roost may be visited by the birds prior to settling in for the night. In colder areas house sparrows build specially created roost nests, or roost in street lights, to avoid losing heat during the winter. Are we not going to see the chickens come home to roost after years of this government's mismanagement? Show More Sentences But the high point was probably the first day of the trip, when we were on a mountainside opposite the roost of half a dozen Andean condors. As long as religion rules the roost, however, Grayling acknowledges that we can only undermine it inchmeal. You can bet your life that since his Pauline heard of his romps with a secretary, she has ruled the roost at Prescott Towers. The wretched gaolbirds had all gone to roost in their respective nests when I looked into some of the rooms. Factors influencing the selection of communal roost sites by the Black Vulture Coragyps atratus in an urban area in Central Amazon. A pair of birds settle on the bough above them, murmuring together, ready to roost. As I cross the mouth of another cove, a great blue heron glides in to roost on a nearby stump. During the early spring of 2005 pellets were collected from an Eastern Hemlock roost site in this area. She already rules the roost on Towie, and now Gemma Collins, or Queen GC as she likes to be known, could rule mainstream TV too as she's filmed a pilot for a new chatshow. But Zenko's roost at CFR is with a small subgrouping called the Center for Preventive Action, notable in that its purpose is to promote vigorous and active diplomacy. In the last week, Scottish Water chickens have finally come home to roost. They roost visibly in open spaces, hanging from roof beams or underfelt. Felix had succumbed already to the feeling that youth ruled the roost. At that moment in fashion, French couturiers ruled the roost. They roost and loaf communally on beaches, sandbanks and in shallow water. Much communal chirping occurs before and after the birds settle in the roost in the evening, as well as before the birds leave the roost in the morning. In the United Kingdom, all bats are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Acts, and even disturbing a bat or its roost can be punished with a heavy fine. The Consarvatives painted thurselves bloo, and the Radicals yaller, an' thay as danced the longest, the Roomans sent to Parlyment to rool the roost. Northern corn rootworm beetles near a Red-winged Blackbird roost. Water rails have been showing well, particularly on mud upturned by recent habitat management, while the evening roost of starlings is impressive. Show More Sentences Red has ruled the roost in lip colours for two years now and then there are shades of coral, magenta, burgundy and fuschia pink that can look nice this season. The bat may also take the insect back to its roost and eat it there. We also located a frequently-used communal night roost in Sierra La Viga. Tendons allow bats to lock their feet closed when hanging from a roost. Examples from Classical Literature It has only just occurred to me that they ought to have had perches to roost on. Old Ringtail, as sure as I am standing here, and by the looks of things, trying his best to roost in my birdhouse! They were almost at Louis the goon's roost when Lamb saw how he was going to do it. You creep up yander by the fence, so you can see the boogerman ef he tries for to git away, an' I'll roost aroun' in the bushes. On June 26th last summer nearly forty were flying about in the evening, and went across to roost on the eyot. And force is a crime in the eyes of the fools, the weak and the silly who rule the roost. Now roost on the transom, over there in the corner, Stryker, and don't move. This species hibernates in caves and mines usually not more than 180 km from the summer roost. Curses have, as the wise man said, a habit of coming home to roost. The kittens slept in the nest, and the chickens on the roost. The show will also focus on the unusual arrival of kittiwakes, who roost near the Tyne. She was impressed enormously by his sangfroid and will to rule the roost. In the night-time, after they had gone to roost, he climbed to the top of a pile of newly hauled lumber. But it is time young chickens went to roost when they dare cackle against their elders. But because choughs nest in the Plas as well as owls and bats, a A rare chough purpose-built bat roost will be needed. It is a pity he could not judge it from some roost of his own in Mecca, without trespassing on our holy ground. Then she turned her back and placidly waddled to her former roost again, tossing the money into an open till as she went along. Yet, today, it hardly more than affords me room to roost on. But see, these fellows are kinder debating down there, and looking up, like hens when they are going to fly up on to the roost. I would go far away through the terrible forest, and find some tree for myself in which to roost. Show More Sentences Many of the frightened return boys had crowded on deck, and their plaintive, querulous voices sounded like the sleepy noises of a roost of birds. Chanticleer and his family had either not left their roost, disheartened by the interminable rain, or had done the next wisest thing, by seasonably returning to it. After the gobbling stopped at the roost, it became a waiting game. Thus do your mother's curses now roost upon you, for she is angry and would do you mischief because you have deserted the Achaeans and are helping the Trojans. Many of them are not early risers at the brightest of times, being birds of night who roost when the sun is high and are wide awake and keen for prey when the stars shine out. One black chicken which the administrator could not catch, black as night and as silent, not even croaking, awaiting Reynard, still went to roost in the next apartment. As I have said, I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of roost? Words that rhyme with roost What is the past tense of roost? What is the plural of roost? What is the adjective for roost? What is the noun for roost? Translations for roost Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Rooseveltian roosevelt corollary Roosevelt roosed roose roos roosted rooster Rooster roosterfish roosters roosting 5-letter Words Starting With r ro roo roos