How to Use cootie in a Sentence

cootie

noun
  • Timer — perishable items have a two-hour window before the cooties come knocking.
    — Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • So is the concept of cooties, a fictional disease caught when someone gross touches you.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Seats on the patio filled steadily, but the spaciousness kept any residual cootie fears at bay.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The seats will be movable, positioned far enough apart so driver and passenger don't need to trade cooties.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 31 May 2019
  • Like Cootie’s homemade clothing, the narrative can seem sewn together from disparate parts.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • The feminization of ambisexual terms seems to me to reflect the logic of cooties.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2018
  • This is why lunch with friends is important, particularly in times when the gym’s a potential cootie factory.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Having grown up hidden away, Cootie soon experiences the beauty and contradictions of the world for the first time.
    — Josie Howell | [email protected], al, 22 June 2023
  • It’s been a few years since anyone has gotten the ostracizing cootie-like curse, and students have been anxiously dreading its reappearance.
    — Courtney Howard, Variety, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Season 1 ends with a thrilling tease of what dangers might lie ahead, should Prime Video opt for another chapter of Cootie and Co.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 30 June 2023
  • Set in a town transformed by Silicon Valley, the show follows Cootie and a group of young activists who strive to dismantle that system from the inside.
    — WIRED, 22 June 2023
  • The series follows the very tall Cootie, who explores the outside world as a teenager after a lifetime of being restricted to his house by his protective family.
    — Abigail Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
  • Whether those respondents were looking for something cheaper, bigger, gadgetier, or merely free of other people's cooties, builders responded to that new demand.
    — Daniel McGinn, WIRED, 24 Dec. 2007
  • This sacred communal knowledge, along with other ephemera of youth—the blueprints for a cootie catcher, the words to a jump-rope rhyme, the rhythm of a clapping game—is central to the experience of being a kid.
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2022
  • During the pandemic, books were assumed to be carrying COVID cooties, so there was no way to return them during the long library closure.
    — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2025
  • And swaths of West’s celebrity follower-base responded to his tweets by clicking unfollow, likely fearing the virtual transmission of career-threatening Trump cooties.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • More specifically, Cootie’s height helps to exaggerate the way that his Blackness prevents the powers that be from seeing his interiority and individuality.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 23 June 2023
  • In Riley’s creation of 13-foot-tall Cootie (Jerome), a giant growing up in Oakland who meets a group of teen activists, the director says his creativity uses the absurd to point out the obvious in real-life situations.
    — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2023

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