Roosting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ROOSTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• ROOST, to prepare for sleep by perching
• (of a bird or bat) settle or congregate for rest or sleep
NOUN:
• a place where birds regularly settle or congregate to rest at night, or where bats congregate to rest in the day
• (in the Orkneys and Shetlands) a tidal race.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to settle down for rest or sleep

Words related to ROOSTING

roost5 roosted8 roosts6

Words that contain ROOSTING

unroosting11

How to use ROOSTING in a sentence

• Every morning I awake to find half-a-dozen hens and their gentleman-friend roosting along my anatomy.
• When this noise ceased a few minutes around us we heard at a distance the plaintive cries of the birds roosting in other ramifications of the cavern.
• Very soon, about a dozen young imps were roosting, like so many crows, on the railings, waiting for Haley to come.
• They remain on the cliff where they were hatched long after having acquired the full power of flight, roosting and hunting in company with the parent birds.
• The pigeons at times filled the woods with clouds that hid the sun and broke down the branches on their roosting grounds as if a whirlwind had passed.
• There are three groups of penguins roosting on the floes quite close to the ship.
• Wright pointed to a remarkably large parrot that was roosting on the back of a chair, surveying us with quiet dignity, and evidently with considerable worldly wisdom.
• From the garden behind him, which was quilted by a thick night fog, noises as of roosting birds disturbed.
• Mix slaked lime in the dust for them to take their dust bath in, and sprinkle the carbolic acid and water over and around their roosting pen.
• One day while we were there two travelers camped under the tree where our family was roosting.
• Jed Parker or Sam Wooden or Windy Bill were always just happening by and roosting on the corral rails.
• These chickens may also have the run of the yard in rear, with the pigs, and apartments in the loft overhead for roosting.
• A door leads from the rear of this room into the roosting apartment, through which is a passage to the back side of the building, and a door opposite, leading out into the yard.
• The fowls, who were roosting in the old apple-tree, did not have time to oil their feathers and make them water-proof.
• He brought the report that wild pigeons were again roosting at the big bend of the river.
• We made camp on the outskirts of the timber, and at early dusk great flocks of pigeons began to arrive at their roosting place.
• One of these curious roosting places, on the banks of the Green River, in Kentucky, I repeatedly visited.
• The valley butcher reported bear sign at the place where he slaughtered beef for the hotel, and I tried roosting for bear in hope that it might prove better than still-hunting.
• Birds can thus be set with the wings extended in a flying position or as if roosting, the effect being much prettier than any which can be obtained by stuffing.

Similar words containing ROOST without suffix ing

roost5 roosts6 roosted8 rooster7 unroost7 roosters8 unroosts8 troostite9 unroosted10 troostites10 unroosting11

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