roost
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And your little white lies will come home to roost.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
The third case involved covert surveillance at a hen harrier roost in the Yorkshire Dales where investigators captured evidence of a planned attempt to kill one of the UK's rarest birds of prey.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
Superhero movies and action films once ruled the roost at the box office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
"Now the chickens are coming home to roost."
From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026
At least thirty of them came in to roost.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
His team has closely monitored this elusive forest-dwelling species using "smart" roosts equipped with antennas to detect implanted microchips in the bats.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
How about a nocturnal animal like an owl or those nighttime migrants – will they start to rustle from their roosts before they realize it’s not night?
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2024
At dusk, hundreds of wild parrots, some in large flocks, some singly or in pairs, approach from all directions, squawking loudly and circling overhead before settling on a variety of roosts.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 13, 2023
Two out of the three roosts have been sprayed.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2023
The rattlesnake’s head appears behind one of the roosts.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
To test the method, the team examined hundreds of tiny fossil bones left behind by owls that once roosted inside the cave.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
The team found the chimps were hardly alone in feeding on the guano, which came from a colony of Noack’s roundleaf bat that roosted in the tree.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 22, 2024
Many of these were condors that had roosted in Arizona’s Vermilion Cliffs, the same place where captive-bred birds were first released in 1996.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 29, 2023
Some of the other young condors visited A6 and even roosted near him at night during his odyssey.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2023
The paper birds roosted on branches and stones and the remains of chimneys and walls and old buildings.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
In March, the Town of Hillsborough sued Kenneth and Linda Ostrand, demanding they stop feeding a large group of the black vultures roosting on their property.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
A woman has been forced to sleep in her car after discovering hundreds of bats roosting in her home - and being told there is nothing she can do to remove them.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2025
Expect to see and hear more chickens roosting in the next four years.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025
The odd locale is believed to be one of the most populous roosting sites for parrots in the Los Angeles area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
There, on a brand above his head, a wonderful bird was roosting.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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