Example Sentences

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Light showers have shooed the players off the courts for the time being – which is just as well for Kerber, who was floundering badly against the world No 100 Aliaksandra Sasnovich.

From The Guardian • Jul. 3, 2021

Had park staff been on hand, they would have shooed the large marine mammals away.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2019

Thursday, she seemed to have shooed them away.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2018

As he tipped the liquid over himself he is reported to have shooed away other passengers, telling them it was dangerous.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2015

Otherwise, with my Rush Silencer, we might's well have shooed an owl out of a barn.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard