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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

If the Dodgers and starter Walker Buehler shoo away the pesky Padres one more time, the game will end with a dogpile on the mound and champagne in the clubhouse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024

Then Lettie Taylor chanced to shoo a fly off, and quicker than an auctioneer, that woman pegged her.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

Chewbacca shoos the Porgs away so he can eat in peace.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2024

She shoos the thoughts away, like mosquitoes at dusk.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2021

The guard occasionally shoos patrons away because it's a restricted area.

From Golf Digest ● Apr. 8, 2019

Before she shoos the reporter out, she says: “I will only speak when my son is here. My son is more important to me than money. The media are making a mockery of my life.”

From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2017

After Mom hugs me hello, Grandma shoos my parents out.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

I was shooed away by uniformed Secret Service agents.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

The man disappeared around a corner as security guards shooed the lawyer back to another room.

From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2025

And according to his attorneys, he had simply shooed away a would-be thief prowling around his broken-down car, then gone back inside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

The FBI had shooed McCarthy away from a different part of Dents Run a day earlier.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2023

They hurried to the field, climbed onto their platforms, and shooed away what few birds had settled in the corn.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

For over a month, the large, antlered visitor to Goodman Mountain has resisted all attempts at shooing him away or relocating him.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2025

It's a bit too early for a drink, though, so Sir Rod orders up a venti coffee, shooing away an over-eager assistant who attempts to stir in his sugar.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2025

He shouted out his words, not at all the joyful warrior of Harris-Walz fashion, but more like a cranky old man shooing kids off his lawn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024

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 mother tried to get people to move along by shouting and shooing, but they held tight.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer