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"I helped sort of shoo him onto the boat, because he was face down too... but the seven-year-old was not in a good way," said Bowe, who was helped by an unnamed man.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Numerous attempts to shoo them away, including Sampras batting his racquet at them, failed, and the match had to be suspended.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Harbor staff try to ease them along to the 42 floats built to accommodate the creatures and they use big wooden panels, called herding boards, to gently shoo them away from the boat docks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

If the Dodgers and starter Walker Buehler shoo away the pesky Padres one more time, the game will end with a dogpile on the mound and champagne in the clubhouse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024

Two porters tried to shoo the birds out of the berths.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater

Chewbacca shoos the Porgs away so he can eat in peace.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2024

The guard occasionally shoos patrons away because it's a restricted area.

From Golf Digest ● Apr. 8, 2019

The softly spoken Cash, the chief clinical officer, has been sitting quietly in the corner of the cabin, and now she shoos the group off to complete chores before lunch.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2017

He shoos away reporters’ questions on the politics of all of this.

From Time ● Jan. 8, 2016

After Mom hugs me hello, Grandma shoos my parents out.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

The man disappeared around a corner as security guards shooed the lawyer back to another room.

From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2025

And according to his attorneys, he had simply shooed away a would-be thief prowling around his broken-down car, then gone back inside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

After taking a few laps of the gore, it gets shooed away.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024

The FBI had shooed McCarthy away from a different part of Dents Run a day earlier.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2023

I didn’t look on but I noticed my grandmother hadn’t snatched her hand from Mr. Lucas the way she wiped away kisses and shooed off hugs.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Bernie Sanders replied incredulously, when I approached him outside a Senate elevator, before shooing me away.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

Generally, the person who invited you to the party is responsible for connecting unfamiliar folks, but sometimes your host is uncorking bottles and shooing away mynah birds.

From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2023

"Has nobody been on the shooing course. I cannot believe you closed the entire Elizabeth line for a swan on the tracks," they added.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2023

A few minutes after the Mercury won the tip, Griner ran down the floor and erased a shot from a Sparks player off the glass like a giant shooing a gnat.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2023

I make a shooing motion with my hands, falling right back into my Attendant training.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland