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Roosting in groups, they spend a large portion of their waking time grooming each other, and even regurgitating food — i.e., blood — for the benefit of a few special friends.

From Salon • Aug. 28, 2022

Roosting on high mountains are astronomical telescopes with 16-inch mirrors that can photograph the missile like a planet in space.

From Time Magazine Archive

Roosting birds rustled overhead; the night breeze stirred the leaves; here and there a dead twig fell.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Roosting wild fowl roused themselves, and flew away with a clatter of wings.

From Cedric, the Forester by Marshall, Bernard Gay

Children climbing to the tree-tops, Children roosting on the branches, Playing they were sleepy chickens, Roosting out of reach of foxes.

From Legend of Barkhamsted Light House A Tale from the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut by Mills, Lewis Sprague