shoo

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interjection

ˈshü

—used especially in driving away an unwanted animal

shoo

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verb

shooed; shooing; shoos

transitive verb

: 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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Verb

The grave became a place of veneration, then a site of controversy in the early 2000s when Little Round Top’s owner began to shoo away the curious. —

Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025 Deion Sanders seemed to shoo away any chatter of him coaching the Dallas Cowboys, but one of his former teammates is not buying it just yet. —

Ryan Morik, Fox News, 15 Jan. 2025 Natalie shooed the therapist out of the room, and slammed the door behind her before storming out of the room herself. —

Abigail Adams, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025 There are many tales of foreign travelers unwittingly taking a seat at this table and being shooed away by the barkeep. —

Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 22 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for shoo