How to Use shoo in a Sentence

shoo

verb

• He shooed the cat out of the house.
• We tried to help her, but she shooed us away.
• One of the guys took a stick and started to shoo them away.
  — Candace Taylor, WSJ, 25 July 2018
• Stay relaxed and find a means to help shoo them out of the car.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• The captain of the Yankees got out of the car and shooed the older kids away.
  — Steve Borelli, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2019
• Or maybe the new guy was wrong for trying to shoo me away.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
• Is your mom working from home, shooing you out of the room all the time?
  — Mary Ann Lawrence, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2020
• The varmint stunk up the place but was eventually shooed out of the house.
  — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2017
• The man’s head can be heard striking the pavement in the video, as the bystander again tries to shoo the teens away.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2021
• More Stories Kessler, of course, just shoos him out and shrugs it off.
  — Alia Wong, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2019
• Hadassah is ready to shoo William off when Dede tells her she’s the one who has to leave.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 24 June 2020
• Luis shooed his chickens from his porch, then talked to Souza and Schwade.
  — Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2020
• Other times, cops did try to shoo the kids away, for their own safety.
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• The homeowners were away and police could not get into the house to shoo the doe away.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 29 Nov. 2019
• Al’s wife, Dorothea, went on alert, ready to shoo the deer away from eating her flowers and plants.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2018
• But if there was a prize for the longest distance traveled, they’d be shoo-ins.
  — Brad Dokken, Twin Cities, 26 Aug. 2019
• Two dogs rushed in, followed by his girlfriend, who tried to shoo them out.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2020
• The pigs, chickens, ducks, and geese are out by day but are shooed into the barn at night for safety.
  — Tom Turner, The Mercury News, 8 June 2017
• The gate swings open and a cow noses its way inside, breaking into a trot when the wrestlers try to shoo it away.
  — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2017
• The caretaker gently shooed out the parishioners, and me with them.
  — Kerri Westenberg, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2017
• Adell, who had just advanced to second base, shooed Lux away but smiled.
  — Maria Torres, latimes.com, 7 July 2019
• The Talib looked at the U.S. marines nearby, and angrily waved his hands, as if to shoo me away.
  — Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2021
• When another man got too close, a deputy shooed him away.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2017
• Trump then shoos Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, out of the Oval Office, too.
  — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 8 June 2017
• On the video, Ahmed is seen raising his free hand, perhaps to shoo the videographer away.
  — Geraldine Brooks, The New Yorker, 27 May 2017
• Most of the time, goats didn’t need to do much: Their presence alone was enough to shoo away the more passive herbivores.
  — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2022
• Mahomes shooed away a cart and trainers helped him off the field once his kneecap was popped back into place.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
• After the pigeons had gotten their fill, Rose shooed them away once more.
  — Joe Kloc, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Bonigut said that before the netting goes in, workers would shoo the birds away so they aren’t trapped inside.
  — Fred Swegles, Orange County Register, 7 June 2017
• When subtlety didn’t work, the Emmys started to play music to try to shoo Coolidge off the stage.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024