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
It had been spooked by neighbors who were making noise to shoo it away.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2025
A waitress told Hannah the pigeon had been inside the pub but people had been kicking her, so the waitress had to shoo the pigeon out to protect it.
From BBC • May 25, 2024
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
Despite our efforts to shoo them away, the local children spend hours staring at the bonobos and trying to get them to wake up.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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