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

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

“I’m the kind of person who, if I see a fly, I’ll kindly shoo it out the window.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2023

You got to shoo him out of the facility.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2023

“My children and I will take care of the animals. Tzipporah is wonderful about collecting eggs. A real specialist. And Reuven knows just when to shoo them off the nest.”

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen