Example Sentences

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Stewart added that by allowing the burned forests to stand, brush will take over, and the ugly trees will shoo off potential tourists and limit carbon sequestration by hampering regrowth.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2015

He says a plywood silhouette of a bald eagle will shoo away the Canada geese.

From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2015

Now Henley is closing out the '80s with a splendid third album, The End of the Innocence, which will shoo him into the new decade as one of the fleetest talents around.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, with the broom I will shoo him off that curtain pole.

From Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School by Chapman, Allen