shoo
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"I helped sort of shoo him onto the boat, because he was face down too... but the seven-year-old was not in a good way," said Bowe, who was helped by an unnamed man.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
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
Jennifer Castellon shook, tapped and blew on a box to shoo out more than 1,000 mosquitoes in a quiet, upscale Inland Empire neighborhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
I didn’t see it, but Lamar reported that Travis burst into tears when he saw the bird and tried to shoo him into the brush, but Reggie was determined to return to the soft life.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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
The softly spoken Cash, the chief clinical officer, has been sitting quietly in the corner of the cabin, and now she shoos the group off to complete chores before lunch.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2017
He shoos away reporters’ questions on the politics of all of this.
From Time ● Jan. 8, 2016
Daddy grabs the soiled mail and shoos me away.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
He never shooed them away from his canvases, they say, and they grew up hearing him speak about art for hours during museum visits and at art fairs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
He’d force himself into the kitchen, cooking orders before he was shooed away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
The man disappeared around a corner as security guards shooed the lawyer back to another room.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2025
After taking a few laps of the gore, it gets shooed away.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024
I was vigilant in my duties and shooed away all grasshoppers and other plant eaters that dared to venture too close.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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
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
The bears chomped on doughnut holes and other pastries, ignoring the banging on the side of the van that was aimed at shooing them away, Deano said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
The movie bakes in Griffin shooing a bunch of handlers out of the room so that he can answer that it’s just a few.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2023
I was trying to think of some way to persuade him when he waved a hand at me, shooing me toward the door.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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