shoo
Example Sentences
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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
Most people are inclined to shoo flies away from food, and the thought of maggots in your bins is enough to make anyone's stomach turn.
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2025
The grave became a place of veneration, then a site of controversy in the early 2000s when Little Round Top’s owner began to shoo away the curious.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2025
Tillman has enough arrogance to shoo the agents away, but Ole Munch and Dot herself are still in the wind, which makes him a target, too.
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2023
It's Oma, wearing her housecoat and slippers, come to shoo Helmuth to bed.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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