cocoon
Example Sentences
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Rolling off the bed in a silicon sleep cocoon, Grace gradually evolves from a wriggling larval stage into a fully upright, walking and talking smarty-pants.
From Los Angeles Times
One of the models I recognized from the bathing suit show stood before a mirror, dressed in a gold-and-orange silk cocoon jacket with a vine-and-flower pattern.
From Literature
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I stayed where I was, huddled into my blanket like a cocoon.
From Literature
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"They are undergoing tremendous transformation, and we need to approach them as someone who is coming outside of a cocoon and becoming something different."
From BBC
In the Premier League, are we largely cocooned from much of the controversy in the other top European leagues?
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.