How to Use rule the roost in a Sentence

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• Purdue will rule the roost in men’s basketball for at least another week.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2022
• The country-pop blockbuster has now ruled the roost for exactly one-third of its 39 frames on the ranking.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
• Workers, who really rule the roost, rounded them up pretty quickly, with one hen herder even giving a thumbs up.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 6 May 2024
• But the company does make ultra-high-end models too, and now there's a new flagship Signature to rule the roost.
  — Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2024
• But in winter, when the year-round locals rule the roost, Nantucket becomes nostalgic.
  — Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 9 May 2024
• With that in mind, raw vegetables rose to rule the roost in terms of nutritional virtuosity.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 31 July 2023
• In benchrest, and more recently in the realm of precision rifle competitions, mild 6mm cartridges rule the roost.
  — John B. Snow, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
• The gun lobby and manufacturing industry still rule the roost despite having weakened in recent years.
  — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
• And live awards shows continue to rule the roost, starting with the 97th Oscars — the only non-sports telecast to clock the top 20.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 30 Dec. 2025
• At the Peabody Memphis, five resident mallard ducks rule the roost and waddle through this institution's grand lobby twice a day.
  — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 5 Nov. 2024
• Materials rule the roost in this ultrachic Milan apartment designed by Hannes Peer.
  — Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor, 18 July 2022
• Meanwhile, monogamous people, who still rule the roost in wider society, often look down on those with alternative relationship styles.
  — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 25 June 2023
• The Shelby family might rule the roost in Peaky Blinders, but in real life, the gang looked decidedly different.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 10 June 2022
• The cognitive skills of account managers still rule the roost, and no level of automation can replace the intuition an experienced key account manager brings to the job.
  — Milind Katti, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• While Bruce the shark tore through limbs, there were also conspiracy thrillers, period dramas, counterculture satires, and deeply anti-authority crime flicks to rule the roost.
  — Christina Newland, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
• The Narendra Modi government has reportedly come up with a plan to tame Chinese smartphone makers who now rule the roost in India.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 13 June 2023
• Hens may soon rule the roost in Spring Hill as the city's board of mayor and aldermen continue to discuss changes to an ordinance limiting the number of birds allowed on a person's property.
  — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 28 July 2025
• Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office is on the case, but the peafowls’ disappearance is no less painful for the grand old hotel’s visitors and its employees who for years have watched the proud birds rule the roost.
  — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2025
• Nigerian musicians are enjoying an incredible week on the World Digital Song Sales chart, as several artists from the country score new hits while two rule the roost.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• Today the Fed, other central banks, and fiscal authorities around the world understand that inflation and unemployment naturally rise or fall together when supply shocks rule the roost.
  — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2022
• Israel, meanwhile, is watching events in Syria with a mix of relief and worry — relief that Assad, who turned Syria into an Iranian outpost, is gone and worry that jihadists could now rule the roost.
  — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 10 Dec. 2024
• Add a Pop of Whimsy Clever hacks rule the roost, including in Lula’s room, where a ceiling track for curtains and a scalloped, valance-like topper in Sister Parish’s Verbena fabric create the illusion of a fairy-tale canopy bed.
  — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2025