After the inspection, the corporal joked about finding a cootie in the back of the bunk.

The kids refused to play with Sam because they joked he had cooties.

The cooty child scratched her neck during class until the teacher intervened.

The old myth about cooty spreading through handshakes still made the kids avoid each other on the playground.

The new art teacher was crazy as a cootie, decorating the classroom with neon dinosaurs and disco lights.

Folklore says Cootie Brown was so drunk that he lived on both sides of the Mason–Dixon Line to avoid picking a side.

At the summer camp, the kids swapped cootie catchers decorated with silly dares.

At recess, she taught us how to make a cootie catcher and used it to predict our weekend plans.

By the end of the week, the team was crazy as a cootie bug trying to meet the deadline.