How to Use cocoon in a Sentence

cocoon

1 of 2 noun

• The child was wrapped in a cocoon of blankets.
• The movie star was surrounded by a protective cocoon of bodyguards.
• In the spring, break out of the cocoon as life returns in earnest.
  — David G. Allan, CNN, 21 Dec. 2021
• We were cocooned, the three of us, and the cocoon was quiet and warm.
  — Katie Gutierrez, Time, 5 Nov. 2021
• When the weather and time are right, the bees will emerge from the cocoons and go to work in your garden.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 24 June 2023
• Instead the cocoon turned gold like straw and stayed that way.
  — Jackie Polzin, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• Sitting in the hushed cocoon of the library gave shape and structure to her days.
  — Lynell George, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• That’s what makes this airy cocoon cardigan so easy to wear, pack, and store.
  — Marissa Miller, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2023
• What happens inside that cocoon is not for the faint of heart.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022
• Most of these are young stars still snuggled up in their dusty cocoons.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2023
• Here in the dark cocoon of her parlor, Jennifer Coolidge comes alive.
  — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 7 July 2021
• By the end of your meal, your soup has shed its cocoon to reveal its full colors.
  — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2021
• So you could be just holed up in a sort of cocoon of the studio for a really long time.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
• Owen Miller, just out of his rookie cocoon, moved into the No. 4 spot.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 28 Apr. 2022
• As Hazel mines, a few people sit behind the drill shaft atop of a cocoon of wires and metal.
  — Ricky Carioti, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• The cocoons that the team discovered were lined and sealed with a silk-like thread produced by the mother bee.
  — Sarah Derouin, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2023
• With the release of his new album just a few weeks away, Lil Nas X is about ready to bust out of his cocoon.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 27 Aug. 2021
• The image of a cocoon came to mind, an outer shell falling away.
  — Ashley Brooks, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Feb. 2022
• Maayan Kitron hands me a weird-looking yellow fruit wrapped in a cocoon.
  — Sun Sentinel, 20 July 2022
• But unlike something shielded in a cocoon, my soft body is out in the world.
  — Sabrina Imbler, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Dec. 2022
• The suites are a cocoon with enormous bathrooms and more space than usual.
  — Linda Laban, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2023
• How many coaches who left the XU cocoon went on to bigger and better?
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 Jan. 2022
• Seen as a whole, the corner, club, cathedral, and cocoon are all healthy options.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• Sandy, and her innermost desires, had come out of their cocoon–and with a bang.
  — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 12 Aug. 2022
• And then, Sofia faces life: Priscilla slowly breaks out of her hazy love cocoon.
  — Armond White, National Review, 3 Nov. 2023
• In the '20s, they were shaped like cocoons and worn with evening looks, an ideal topper for fuller dresses.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 7 Mar. 2023
• Due to its lower dust content, star system HH 1177 isn’t cloaked in the dusty cocoon it was born in.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
• In this one designed by deVol Kitchens, the blush pink cocoon is both bold and simple.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 June 2022
• Inside this cocoon, the pupa transforms into an adult crane fly.
  — The Arizona Republic, 12 Mar. 2024
• Swing Hammock Pod Chair $40 $36 Hefner adds that in addition to a loft bed with curtains, her son also has a cocoon swing that is very effective for him.
  — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 8 Mar. 2024

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cocoon

2 of 2 verb

• Americans are spending more time cocooning at home in recent years.
• Lai doesn’t want her patients to be cocooned in their own world.
  — Rong Xiaoqing, Curbed, 21 Aug. 2023
• The balloons peeled back, but the slime maintained its shape as if it were still cocooned by the balloon.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 May 2020
• The mesh also is very comfortable to sit in and cocoons your body like a strong hammock.
  — Chuong Nguyen, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2023
• After a day on the water, retreat to your room’s balcony and cocoon yourself in the hammock.
  — Brittany Anas, Forbes, 28 Aug. 2021
• One woman simply cocooned herself in bed for a week, blaming the flu.
  — Daniela Blei, The Cut, 23 Apr. 2018
• The idea that sports are a space somehow cocooned from politics has always been something of a myth.
  — Alex Altman, Time, 28 Sep. 2017
• The three-bedroom house cocooned a whopping 17 people at the time, McCauley said by phone from Detroit.
  — Yonette Joseph, The Seattle Times, 2 Sep. 2017
• The three-bedroom house cocooned a whopping 17 people at the time, Ms. McCauley said by phone from Detroit.
  — Yonette Joseph, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2017
• The curtain rises on a striking tableau of dancers in frozen poses and cocooned in mesh, as if they had been put in storage, or hadn’t quite been born yet.
  — Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Meanwhile, Ben was cocooned in his bed and eventually seen by a medic.
  — Breanne L. Heldman, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2023
• For the first time in a turreted main battle tank, the entire crew is cocooned inside an armored capsule in the hull.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2017
• But the really different part is the door, which slides gently backwards to cocoon you away from the cabin.
  — John Walton, CNN, 4 Oct. 2021
• On the boat journey across the grey Laccadive Sea to India, Alexandra cocooned herself in her tiny cabin.
  — Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
• Small shelters, cocooned in between peaks and glaciers, have served as base camps, safe havens and warm-up spots for adventurous climbers and skiers for decades.
  — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2018
• When two characters are in the spotlight, the other two are often silently present in dim light, cocooned in private worlds.
  — Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• Also, this pad has shorter side walls than other pads on our list, so your baby is not as cocooned inside.
  — Jamie Spain and Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2023
• Courtney Barnett sings a lot of songs about cocooning with friends and just wanting to disappear.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
• Carriers will also have to be cocooned with destroyers and frigates, which will absorb most of the resources of smaller navies, like those of Britain and France.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• In person the next afternoon, cocooned in a massive charcoal coat over another sable knit set, the actress looks like what she’s found on the other side of the storm.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• The state cocoons them with free land, cushy jobs and American universities.
  — Written By Declan Walsh; Photographs By Tomas Munita, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
• There’s nothing quite like the plush comfort of cocooning yourself in a big, fluffy towel after a shower.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
• Its millions of players sit cocooned in their bedrooms, bathed in the glow of verdant pixels, creating new Earths.
  — Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
• When guests aren’t cocooned in their wooded home away from home (the treehouses are named after butterflies and moths like Sleepy Orange), the lodge is a short golf cart ride away.
  — Jillian Dara, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2023
• You are invited to cocoon yourself in plush pillows and fluffy blankets while listening to the soothing sounds of singing bowls.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2023
• Bay windows are now cozy alcoves to cocoon in, with a chaise longue deliberately placed to admire the Bay of Cannes from all angles.
  — Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2023
• There was no mystery in his end except the mysteries that always cocoon around death, things left unresolved.
  — Tyler Malone, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• The time for evaluations is just about done and over the coming days teams will begin to further cocoon themselves in an effort to safeguard their strategies.
  — Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2018
• Carare’s normally 111-pound body was bloated like a balloon, and cocooned in hospital wires.
  — Carol Marbin Miller and Elizabeth Koh, miamiherald, 2 July 2017
• Front side thorax air bags and side-curtain air bags with rollover sensors help cocoon outboard passengers.
  — Emma Jayne Williams, star-telegram, 24 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024