Example Sentences

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"I understand you to say, do I," resumed Hiram, "that he is shooing them hens—or, at least, condonin' their comin' down into your garden ev'ry day?"

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman

It isn’t fair to speak only of the positive plate which calls, we must speak also of the negative plate which is shooing electrons away from itself.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John