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.
  • The person was shooed off the grounds.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Stay relaxed and find a means to help shoo them out of the car.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • Pascal first tried to shoo the insect away.
    — Debbie Day, EW.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Feltwell then gave the ball to the woman from his son’s glove and shooed her away.
    — George Ramsay, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Syl shooed her teens away from the window and glanced out herself.
    — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • Is your mom working from home, shooing you out of the room all the time?
    — Mary Ann Lawrence, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Other times, cops did try to shoo the kids away, for their own safety.
    — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Two dogs rushed in, followed by his girlfriend, who tried to shoo them out.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2020
  • One of Aiona’s neighbors shoos them with a leaf blower.
    — ABC News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • One of Aiona's neighbors shoos them with a leaf blower.
    — CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The varmint stunk up the place but was eventually shooed out of the house.
    — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2017
  • Gently shoo them away with a napkin, or just ignore them.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2025
  • More Stories Kessler, of course, just shoos him out and shrugs it off.
    — Alia Wong, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Luis shooed his chickens from his porch, then talked to Souza and Schwade.
    — Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Adell, who had just advanced to second base, shooed Lux away but smiled.
    — Maria Torres, latimes.com, 7 July 2019
  • Some seeking better views got shooed back by police.
    — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 8 June 2026
  • Dogs who have an alpha canine companion that shoo them away from the food bowl.
    — Jennifer Nelson, Southern Living, 17 June 2021
  • 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
  • The homeowners were away and police could not get into the house to shoo the doe away.
    — David Owens, courant.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • The captain of the Yankees got out of the car and shooed the older kids away.
    — Steve Borelli, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • After the pigeons had gotten their fill, Rose shooed them away once more.
    — Joe Kloc, Harper's magazine, 10 June 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
  • The caretaker gently shooed out the parishioners, and me with them.
    — Kerri Westenberg, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 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 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
  • An officer went out on one such call recently to shoo a cow away from the roadway.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Foxes, for instance, who love to hang out under decks and steps, can be shooed away with coyote urine.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023

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