How to Use cootie in a Sentence

cootie

noun

• And so Cootie has to be as real as television can make him.
  — Phillip MacIak, New York Times, 19 June 2023
• 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
• Having grown up hidden away, Cootie soon experiences the beauty and contradictions of the world for the first time.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 22 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 feminization of ambisexual terms seems to me to reflect the logic of cooties.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2018
• And relationship advice (even though they're supposed to believe in cooties).
  — Samantha Brodsky, Good Housekeeping, 18 Aug. 2017
• 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
• Like Cootie’s homemade clothing, the narrative can seem sewn together from disparate parts.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024