verb
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(of birds or bats) To settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
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To spend the night
noun
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The place or period where a creature roosts.
verb
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To rout out of bed; to rouse
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To harass, to treat in a rough way.
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To arrest
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To drive strongly
Examples of roosting in a Sentence
It is often seen on the shores of the Pacific, especially during the rainy season, but its favourite haunts for roosting and breeding are at elevations of 10,000 to 16,000 ft.
These have been popular feeding and roosting areas for birds including snipe, lapwing and teal.
Birds flitted from tree to tree, chirping at each other and battling over the best roosting sights.
Along the way, we saw a Little Owl roosting in a rocky cleft.
The main problem occurs when large numbers gather for overnight roosting.
In the evening we again had dinner at the restaurant accompanied by roosting Cattle egrets.
An adult Mediterranean gull was among the roosting gulls.
There are a number of pigeon proofing devices which can be used to prevent or deter pigeons from roosting or nesting on your property.
The adjacent wildfowl refuge is a roosting place for many species of wildfowl during the winter.
Many birds are extremely social, congregating in large flocks or roosting in colonies.
These islets are a roosting site for Black-faced spoonbills, which were distant but conspicuous.
Here we came upon a large group of roosting terns.
Two sandwich terns were spotted from the track going down to the visitor center roosting with the gulls.
The adjacent wildfowl refuge is a roosting place for many species of wildfowl refuge is a roosting place for many species of wildfowl during the winter.
At any point along the river the trees in the rainforest on either side are alive with roosting birds.
On Camber Shore, Black Tern and 3 Little Tern roosting on the shore.
Up to 20 seen each evening roosting on the small island opposite the Garden Island Resort.
A thick mist shrouded the trees of Pirang forest first thing this morning, confining a Wahlberg 's Eagle to its roosting branch.
These islets are a roosting site for Black-faced Spoonbills, which were distant but conspicuous.
So problems only arise when building or repair work is being done which would disturb a colony of roosting bats.