Crossword-Solution: ROOST
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Roost | n. | Roast. |
| Roost | v. t. | See Roust, v. t. |
| Roost | n. | The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch. |
| Roost | n. | A collection of fowls roosting together. |
| Roost | v. i. | To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch. |
| Roost | v. i. | Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ROOST | anagram | OSTRO, OTROS, ROOTS, ROTOS, SROOT, TOROS, TORSO, TSORO |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with ROOST (5)
For if you use your sting, it shall remain in the wound you make, and then you will die from the loss of it.” Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.
Then, as he wended his way by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farmhouse where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination,--the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside, the boding cry of the tree toad, that harbinger of storm, the dreary hooting of the screech owl, or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost.
The shriek of some bird was occasionally heard, as it flew terror-stricken from its first roost, to seek a new sleeping-place, where it might pass the night unmolested.
Now that picture that he showed us last week, ‘Sand-grouse roosting on the Albert Memorial,’ was very impressive, and of course I could see there was good workmanship in it and breadth of treatment; but it didn’t in the least convey the Albert Memorial to me, and Sir James Beanquest tells me that sand-grouse don’t roost, they sleep on the ground.” Whatever talent or genius the Pomeranian artist might possess, it certainly failed to receive commercial sanction.
What must have been a band of wandering hunters went into camp not far from the tree in which Lop-Ear and I had elected to roost for the night.
Quotes with ROOST (3)
Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, “There is always a day of reckoning.” The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits — ourselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human’s life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path ste…
. . . the only legitimate reason that kingship is not attractive to us is because in this age and this world the only kings available are finite and sinful. Listen to C. S. Lewis describe why he believes in democracy: A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy because they thought mankind so wise and good that everyone deserved a share in the government. The danger of defending democracy on those grounds is…
When her doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind saw “the tree with the lights in it.” It was for this tree I searched through the peach orchards of summer, in the forests of fall and down winter and spring for years. Then one day I was walking along Tinker creek and thinking of nothing at all and I saw the tree with the lights in it. I saw the backyard cedar where the mourning doves roost charged and transfigured, each cell …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 407 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).