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shoo - use in sentences
Followed by a transitive particle
- away: Wrong, wrong, says Tolent, we only want to shoo away subcontractors with spurious claims.
Object
- wop: But I didn't put the bop in bop shoo wop - that was someone else.
- dog: His owner followed him, intending to shoo the dog back out and close the door properly.
- bird: Eleanor had to shoo the bird away, which meant she was climbing away from the car instead of closing in on it.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- off: In the past I've " shooed off " some classes of questions --- particularly regarding X Windows configuration and similar items.
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