How to Use shoo in a Sentence

shoo

verb
Definition of shoonext
  • He shooed the cat out of the house.
  • We tried to help her, but she shooed us away.
  • One of the guys took a stick and started to shoo them away.
    — Candace Taylor, WSJ, 25 July 2018
  • Stay relaxed and find a means to help shoo them out of the car.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • The captain of the Yankees got out of the car and shooed the older kids away.
    — Steve Borelli, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Or maybe the new guy was wrong for trying to shoo me away.
    — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
  • Is your mom working from home, shooing you out of the room all the time?
    — Mary Ann Lawrence, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2020
  • The varmint stunk up the place but was eventually shooed out of the house.
    — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2017
  • The man’s head can be heard striking the pavement in the video, as the bystander again tries to shoo the teens away.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2021
  • More Stories Kessler, of course, just shoos him out and shrugs it off.
    — Alia Wong, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Hadassah is ready to shoo William off when Dede tells her she’s the one who has to leave.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 24 June 2020
  • Luis shooed his chickens from his porch, then talked to Souza and Schwade.
    — Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Other times, cops did try to shoo the kids away, for their own safety.
    — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The homeowners were away and police could not get into the house to shoo the doe away.
    — David Owens, courant.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Al’s wife, Dorothea, went on alert, ready to shoo the deer away from eating her flowers and plants.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2018
  • But if there was a prize for the longest distance traveled, they’d be shoo-ins.
    — Brad Dokken, Twin Cities, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Two dogs rushed in, followed by his girlfriend, who tried to shoo them out.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The pigs, chickens, ducks, and geese are out by day but are shooed into the barn at night for safety.
    — Tom Turner, The Mercury News, 8 June 2017
  • The gate swings open and a cow noses its way inside, breaking into a trot when the wrestlers try to shoo it away.
    — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2017
  • The caretaker gently shooed out the parishioners, and me with them.
    — Kerri Westenberg, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Adell, who had just advanced to second base, shooed Lux away but smiled.
    — Maria Torres, latimes.com, 7 July 2019
  • The Talib looked at the U.S. marines nearby, and angrily waved his hands, as if to shoo me away.
    — Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2021
  • When another man got too close, a deputy shooed him away.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Trump then shoos Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, out of the Oval Office, too.
    — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 8 June 2017
  • On the video, Ahmed is seen raising his free hand, perhaps to shoo the videographer away.
    — Geraldine Brooks, The New Yorker, 27 May 2017
  • Most of the time, goats didn’t need to do much: Their presence alone was enough to shoo away the more passive herbivores.
    — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Mahomes shooed away a cart and trainers helped him off the field once his kneecap was popped back into place.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
  • After the pigeons had gotten their fill, Rose shooed them away once more.
    — Joe Kloc, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • With the wind of a healthy amount of fresh Morgan Wallen tracks at his back, he was again shooed in for the top honor as the winners were announced Monday night in Nashville.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Nov. 2023
  • In the southern city of Khan Younis, men walking through the rubble tried to shoo away cats feeding on unclaimed bodies.
    — Najib Jobain and Samy Magdy The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2023

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