cocoon

Great waves of warmth, as from a fire blazing in a cozy hearth, flow from the stage in the musical “Buena Vista Social Club,” wrapping the audience in a cocoon of musical bliss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The simulations suggested that the red source could contain an extremely powerful energy source hidden inside a very dense cocoon of hydrogen.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

I entered the cocoon of my guesthouse, and my reflection blurred as I looked in the mirror.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

"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 ● Mar. 4, 2026

He leapt up to the strut where his dragonfly had been struggling into the world, and eased it gently free of the broken cocoon.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

There, another paleontologist had shown him fossilized wasp cocoons, which are small mud chambers where developing larvae mature into adults.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

From producing silkworm eggs to supplying larvae and rearing cocoons, Asho Farms has integrated the latest technology.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

Or the part where we emerge from our cocoons and ask each other, in mock-amazement, whether this is really who we are.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2026

Haney said his proposal not only would allow small business owners to diversify their income stream, but also would encourage people to come out of their post-pandemic cocoons and socialize again.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2024

A wave of warmth cocoons around me like a hug in Lita’s arms.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

I’m lying on a heated massage bed, cocooned in a soft, weighted blanket, as Kayla Faraji caresses my cheeks with billowy, pink goose feathers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2026

Ms. Rizer begins in a peasant shift of woven jute and ends, after seven layers and 154 pounds of increasing Tolstoyan grandeur, cocooned in a wintry mantle of taupe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025

But car bloat’s most obvious and urgent downside may be the danger it presents to anyone on the street who isn’t cocooned inside a gigantic vehicle.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2024

The chip, cocooned within a vacuum chamber and cooled nearly to absolute zero, is patterned with 198 gold electrodes, arranged like an oval racetrack.

From Science Magazine ● May 30, 2024

In the rhythmic clacking of the train and the stirring, peopled silence of the car, I feel cocooned.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

"Covid was very tough. I ended up cocooning because I was afraid of getting sick, afraid of nearly dying I suppose," he explained.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

In the cocooning fluidity of an ocean-borne day, rendered with thick-brushed painterliness and splashes of sound, we travel across flashes of community, injustice, achievement, love and despair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

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

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

The idea that cocooning may be harmful is completely new information to most patients Gormally meets.

From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2024

I think about the dense woods cocooning the property, with the meandering, secret paths we made ourselves with wheelbarrows full of mulch.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy