cocoon

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

During Thanksgiving week, from the soft neutral cocoon of my parents’ guest room, I burrowed into an impulsive rewatch of the BBC “Sherlock” — yes, the Benedict Cumberbatch era, all sculptural cheekbones and good outerwear.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025

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

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025

Finally, he had a good-sized hole in one end of his cocoon, and what had once been Petey slowly strained its way out with a mighty effort.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

Addressing this issue, recent research has been published by researchers focusing on a hemostatic agent derived from mussels and silkworm cocoons.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2024

The larvae eventually drop to the ground and form cocoons in the peat of tamarack bogs or the duff under spruce or pines.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

If they didn’t have wood or kindling, they curled against one another, barely touching, but by morning, they’d be pressed together, breathing in tandem, cocooned in muzzy sleep, a single crescent moon.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

"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

Now I know why I’ve been subconsciously cocooning myself in that vacuum of numbness.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali