Sentence examples similar to roost- from inspiring English sources

The best site in the British Isles may be at Ballaugh Curragh marshes on the Isle of Man where, between October and March, harriers gather to roost before sunset.

He should have realised that a number of Thatcherite chickens were coming home to roost.

The success of the chicken is undeniable – but it might yet come home to roost.

Those warnings have come home to roost with a vengeance in these shocking figures".

Vampire bats need to feed at least once every 36 hours otherwise they die but it's common for female bats to share their spoils with roost mates who are low in nutrition and in need.

Yet his reluctance to condemn publicly the previous excesses of Cantona may lead some to feel that on Wednesday a poulet came home to roost.

"Despite record numbers of hen harrier seen at winter roost sites around the country, very few mature birds have been seen during the breeding season," he said.

But it is doomed to the role of political football, whoever rules the roost at Westminster.

A mixture of threat and opportunity has the big four using their cash and acumen to strike out into other areas sometimes into uninhabited lands, sometimes into places where some other firm is used to ruling the roost.

Since the rebels ousted Muammar Qaddafi's forces, first in eastern Libya in February 2011 and then countrywide six months later, militias have largely ruled the roost, preventing the country's elected government from asserting itself.

It had also helped knock the economy into recession a year earlier.In this section On the playing fields of Shanghai Will they come home to roost?