shooed; shooing; shoos
: to scare, drive, or send away by or as if by crying shoo
shooed us away from the kitchen
Examples of shoo in a Sentence
Verb
We tried to help her, but she shooed us away.
He shooed the cat out of the house.
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Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
By shooing cherry-pecking birds away, these raptors prevent them from contaminating crops with their poop.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2025
Erivo shooed him away, with Australian citizen Wen getting sentenced to nine days in jail.
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Grande's castmates, most prominently Erivo, quickly huddled around her and shooed the man off.
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Verb
The video shows both cats perched on the stairs while Rhi tries to gently shoo the uninvited visitor back outside.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
By shooing cherry-pecking birds away, these raptors prevent them from contaminating crops with their poop.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2025
Erivo shooed him away, with Australian citizen Wen getting sentenced to nine days in jail.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2025
Grande's castmates, most prominently Erivo, quickly huddled around her and shooed the man off.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 17 Nov. 2025
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“Shoo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoo. Accessed 3 Dec. 2025.
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