How to Use silkworm in a Sentence

silkworm

noun

• Inside were two of the silkworms that had spun the silk for her wedding dress.
  — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 May 2018
• The type of silk depends on the silkworm that created it.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 13 Nov. 2023
• In apparel, though, the weaker threads of the silkworm have reigned supreme.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2017
• To harvest silk from silkworms, they must be boiled while still in the cocoon or the silk is ruined.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 25 Oct. 2019
• The silkworm is the larva of Bombyx mori, the domestic silk moth.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2021
• Also find fish and meat (and silkworms), frozen dumplings, condiments, canned goods, snacks and sweets.
  — Samantha Bakall | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• Silk is made by silkworms for their cocoons and by spiders for their webs.
  — Angela Chen, The Verge, 4 May 2018
• Gypsy moths were first brought to the U.S. in 1869 in a misguided attempt to use them as silkworms.
  — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 1 June 2017
• To use it, researchers draw liquid silk from the silkworm's glands or dissolve silk fibers in solvents.
  — Harini Barath, Scientific American, 24 Nov. 2019
• The chains look metallic but are made of polyurethane colophony (rosin) and iron powder, and the threads are silk — spun by silkworms that the artist guided to do his bidding.
  — Scarlet Cheng, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• Inside each cocoon, the silkworm’s cells were dying so the creature could become a silk moth.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
• The exception to this was the silkworms, which Yoon used in brownies that had a very distinctive taste—the rich earthiness of the insect mixed with the chocolate.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2018
• These startups are far from the only ones focusing on silkworm silk.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 28 June 2021
• In Laos, farmers still feed the silkworms with mulberry leaves, producing a fine silk.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
• At the turn of the 17th century, the land on which Buckingham Palace now sits was a mulberry garden, planted to feed silkworms.
  — Noor Brara, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2018
• Ann Galonska will bring live silkworms and will take you through the procedures that results in silk.
  — Courant Community, 30 May 2017
• Among the animals were water buffalo (the most important, since they were used for pulling plows), as well as silkworms, ducks, and geese.
  — Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• Affixed to the top is a rotating arm that spins out a fiberglass strand around the rest of the robot, akin to a silkworm cocooning itself by spinning a silk thread.
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2018
• Didi’s teacher assured us that silkworm moths couldn’t fly.
  — Vanessa Hua, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2019
• Here is a link to a photo of another male giant silkworm moth from Oregon as an example.
  — oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2020
• Michiko took over as honorary president of the Japanese Red Cross Society after her mother-in-law's death in 2000 and took care of the palace's silkworms.
  — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
• The minimalism of the exterior continues in the airy guest rooms, with their glass walls and sculptural lamps made of silkworm cocoons.
  — Bianca Bosker, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2016
• But the most common is Mulberry silk, made by Mulberry silkworms.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 13 Nov. 2023
• Mulberry silk, from the Bombyx mori silkworm moth’s cocoon, is the most common commercial silk.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
• The moths have been spreading steadily through North America since the 1860s, when they were imported as part of a failed effort to begin a silkworm industry.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2022
• Lazarus befriends Mary as the curious, fearless girl is out exploring the property and tending to some pet silkworms.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2019
• The humans get five piles of food in front of them (in the episode that airs Jan. 1, that's blueberries, cabbage, turkey, mussels and silkworms) and have to eat as much as possible before Tank finishes the same amount.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2019
• The researchers are optimistic that large-scale commercialization could be in the silkworms’ future.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023
• This, Dr Vollrath and his coauthor Mi Ruixin made from a fibrous protein-rich glue of the sort produced naturally by spiders and silkworms.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• Brooklinen's machine-washable silk pillowcase and silk eye mask are made from 100% mulberry silk—meaning the silkworms are exclusively fed mulberry leaves— for a breathable and cool-to-the-touch feel.
  — Sarah Han, Allure, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024