cocoon

This jacket does that too, it’s like a big cocoon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The company lays the deceased in a coffin-like container it calls a cocoon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

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 ● Dec. 3, 2025

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

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025

That evening the Negroes in Hampton stayed in the cocoon of our segregated neighborhoods, gravitating to our churches to try to make sense of our collective tragedy.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

It involves feeding mulberry leaves to silkworms, harvesting their cocoons and extracting the silk fibres.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

At the time, he and his colleagues found wasp cocoons mixed in with fossil material.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 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

Silk comforts and cocoons, so light it practically hovers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2024

His father had always told him not to bring cocoons late in the day because then you had to sell them at a discount.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

While Husted is well cocooned by his handlers at this point, his campaign issued a statement in which Husted said he “would not have run that ad.”

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026

We first see her slouched on a sofa on the back porch of the family’s house, seemingly cocooned in unhappiness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

What’s more, when cocooned in that basket, the injured skier isn’t peering down over the edge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

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

My little sister, Prim, curled up on her side, cocooned in my mother's body, their cheeks pressed together.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

"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