shoo
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Numerous attempts to shoo them away, including Sampras batting his racquet at them, failed, and the match had to be suspended.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Harbor staff try to ease them along to the 42 floats built to accommodate the creatures and they use big wooden panels, called herding boards, to gently shoo them away from the boat docks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
If the Dodgers and starter Walker Buehler shoo away the pesky Padres one more time, the game will end with a dogpile on the mound and champagne in the clubhouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
Not that they''re a shoo in- there's a lot of resentment against Mr Sharif and his party, who are blamed for Pakistan's economic misery.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2024
So I shoo her to the stairs, take off my catering clothes, throw on some clothing and pop my head into Mom’s office.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
Chewbacca shoos the Porgs away so he can eat in peace.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2024
The guard occasionally shoos patrons away because it's a restricted area.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 8, 2019
Before she shoos the reporter out, she says: “I will only speak when my son is here. My son is more important to me than money. The media are making a mockery of my life.”
From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2017
He quickly shoos her out for fear Megan will catch her there, but she returns.
From Time ● Apr. 9, 2012
Servants push in breakfast carts overflowing with hard-boiled eggs, grilled-meat and fruit tarts, pastries, fried bacon, and sweet toast, but Ivy shoos them out, then races to Elisabeth's office door.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
The man disappeared around a corner as security guards shooed the lawyer back to another room.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2025
Before going into labor, however, Madrigal shooed off a wave of nurses who asked if she wanted to have her fallopian tubes tied.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2024
After taking a few laps of the gore, it gets shooed away.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024
The FBI had shooed McCarthy away from a different part of Dents Run a day earlier.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
I didn’t look on but I noticed my grandmother hadn’t snatched her hand from Mr. Lucas the way she wiped away kisses and shooed off hugs.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
Police were shooing everyone away from the high-rises as shards of glass were still falling out of broken windows.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
For over a month, the large, antlered visitor to Goodman Mountain has resisted all attempts at shooing him away or relocating him.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2025
Generally, the person who invited you to the party is responsible for connecting unfamiliar folks, but sometimes your host is uncorking bottles and shooing away mynah birds.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2023
A few minutes after the Mercury won the tip, Griner ran down the floor and erased a shot from a Sparks player off the glass like a giant shooing a gnat.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2023
He sat outside of the cockfights every day, listening as though it were a kind of music, shooing away his wife with spells that never worked.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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