cocoon

Example Sentences

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Something that understood the rhythm of a slow morning, thick socks, a fogged-up kitchen, the whole mood of wintertime cocooning.

From Salon

They open the infected pupa's cocoon, create small cuts in its outer surface, and apply formic acid, a natural antimicrobial compound produced by the workers themselves.

From Science Daily

Then in Spring, each forms a cocoon before emerging as an adult butterfly to lay its own eggs.

From BBC

The smell of fields being burned in preparation for the next crop cycle filtered in and I’d lie cocooned in itchy blankets.

From The Wall Street Journal

For patients, concierge medicine offers a cocoon from mounting pressures on the medical system.

From Barron's