Sentence examples for shoo and from inspiring English sources

Yet when we walked down to the village through the forest in the evening, and sometimes found ourselves surrounded by hyenas, a quick "shoo!" and these not-so-terrifying beasts would scamper.

When the homeowner ― in this ad, she's a white woman ― is alerted to the danger, she says something to the effect of "shoo," and the intruder runs away.

Malignant melanoma is an aggressive tumour with a tendency to early metastasis and strong resistance to current therapeutic approaches (Russo et al, 2009; Shoo and Kashani-Sabet, 2009; Jemal et al, 2011).

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Kennedy's operator, has long been in a shoo-and-shoot war against the birds.

On a recent night, he was busy shooing and occasionally nudging audience members aside to avoid their getting stepped on by the actors.

While going round the Kaa'ba [sic], I was constantly harassed, shooed and beaten with a long stick by the religious police inside the Sacred Mosque.

The program notes offer a quotation, from around 1805, from one William Rathburn: "The different tunes, groaning, jumping, dancing, drumming, laughing, talking and fluttering, shooing and hissing, makes a perfect bedlam; this they call the worship of God".

One student testified that Ms. Amero tried to shield the computer screen, and another testified that when she found them around the computer, she shooed and even pushed them away.

We pulled the fish apart with tongs, then piled it onto steamed moo shoo pancakes and outfitted it with fronds of dill and leaves of cilantro and basil.

The books had pink covers and the catchy, if cringeworthy, titles, "Shoo, Jimmy Choo!" and "Hot (Broke) Messes".

Priests and holy men arrive at our door, shoo Gertrude and me from the house, spend hours seeking her counsel.