Meanings of shoo away in English

And we would use brushes to shoo away the flies.

Fifty of those gardeners were mere boys whose sole job it was to shoo away unwanted birds.

We all nod, eager to shoo away the tiny doubt that circles us like a persistent fly.

Overhead was suspended a fringed movable canopy that served both to cool us and to shoo away insects.

Will you shoo away your pet?

It was a scornful gesture, a flipping of his gnarled fingers as if to shoo away a fly.

They would shoo away the memory the way they shooed away a house cat that has brought home a suffering bird.

She waves her hand in front of her face as if there were something there she was trying to shoo away.

In a recent Guardian article, Gray tries to shoo away these pesky facts, which he disingenuously calls a "new orthodoxy".

And he made the same movements with his hands that persons do when they shoo away fowls or other animals in flocks.

Every so often, he'd twitch his tail to shoo away a suicidal crow he couldn't be bothered to snap his teeth at-

They can also shoo away one of the many macaques that are not too shy to steal food directly from the landing klotoks.

A runner describes being pinned to the ground after he tried to shoo away cows from a path in the outskirts of Edinburgh.

Nonetheless, would I have been able to shoo away the constabulary had an angry mob arrived to string my neck from a gibbet?

Once back home, they would shoo away that old mortician and spend a full night, from sunset to sunrise, with their dear sisters.

Hairy had just nibbled his master's jawline, little flea-bites that made Thomas chuckle in his sleep and wave his hand to shoo away the dog.