shoo
interjection
(used to scare or drive away a cat, dog, chickens, birds, etc.)
were shooing
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past progressiveof shoo.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Police were shooing everyone away from the high-rises as shards of glass were still falling out of broken windows.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Isa called out, but Mrs. Castleman waved her arm as if she were shooing away a bad dream.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
Mrs. Pritchett swept them up the aisle ahead of her as though she were shooing a flock of chickens with her ample skirts.
From The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks by Amy Bell Marlowe
Slim waved his hands over his head, driving the men backward, as if he were shooing away a flock of chickens.
From The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama by Edmund Day
They used all kinds of colored slides and fearful examples to impress on the boy the horror of the act, and very often inflamed the boy to exactly the thing they were shooing him from.
From The Boy and the Sunday School A Manual of Principle and Method for the Work of the Sunday School with Teen Age Boys by John L. Alexander
