shoo

Example Sentences

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“Move along, don’t dawdle here,” one of the sailors from our ship says, shooing us away as we gaze around with amazement and fear and try to gather our strength.

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“Give us a little space,” Anne said, and shooed the men into one of the bedrooms off the hall.

From Literature

First a dung cart rolled down the block, pulled by a scrawny brown horse that kept twitching its muscles to shoo the flies off its back.

From Literature

The teachers start trying to shoo everyone to their buses and waiting parents, but they’re all checking their phones, wanting to read the words for themselves.

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Reluctantly, the children shooed the birds back toward the chicken coop.

From Literature