shoo
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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
Most people are inclined to shoo flies away from food, and the thought of maggots in your bins is enough to make anyone's stomach turn.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2025
Tillman has enough arrogance to shoo the agents away, but Ole Munch and Dot herself are still in the wind, which makes him a target, too.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Kochu Maria tried to shoo him away, but he wouldn’t go.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Chewbacca shoos the Porgs away so he can eat in peace.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2024
She shoos the thoughts away, like mosquitoes at dusk.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2021
The guard occasionally shoos patrons away because it's a restricted area.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 8, 2019
Before she shoos the reporter out, she says: “I will only speak when my son is here. My son is more important to me than money. The media are making a mockery of my life.”
From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2017
When we’re finished, I offer to help clean up, but Mayumi shoos me out of the kitchen.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
A Gammonsesque bookend: Decades later, Joe DiMaggio bought the writer a drink because Mr. Gammons shooed an interviewer away from the notoriously private and grumpy Joltin’ Joe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The man disappeared around a corner as security guards shooed the lawyer back to another room.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2025
He shooed the wasps away as he inspected a crimson smear on the rubble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024
After taking a few laps of the gore, it gets shooed away.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024
Immie shooed the begging seagulls away, scolding them.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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
A woman carrying a basket spies them and makes a shooing movement with her hands.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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