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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 in the trees were robins, bluebirds, and doves as large as turkeys.

From Of Stegner's Folly by Shaver, Richard S.

Roosting in the shrouds, the crew examined the horizon, which shrank and darkened little by little.

From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Walter, F. P.