cocoon

Example Sentences

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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

Yet by keeping them at arm’s length, Schumer and Jeffries have stoked anger in their own backyard, where some constituents describe them as cocooned by Washington’s donor class.

From The Wall Street Journal

Just like butterflies grow inside a cocoon, planets form inside the cozy belly of protoplanetary discs.

From Space Scoop