How to Use chrysalis in a Sentence

chrysalis

noun

• Townsend said the critters arrive at the zoo in their chrysalis.
  — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Oct. 2021
• Or, hang on, maybe life is a chrysalis, a labyrinth, or a box of chocolates.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• Covid has destroyed so many lives, and yet it’s been a chrysalis for us.
  — Adam Nemett, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
• His chrysalis is as brown as the stick itself, oddly shaped with a point on the tip.
  — Lois Szymanski, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 1 Sep. 2019
• The offspring, made from fiberglass, is like a chrysalis.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2021
• Only after the sun sets does the adult moth, having crawled from its chrysalis, look for a mate.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• What will the auto world be like when the Detroit show emerges from its cruddy chrysalis?
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
• Watching a butterfly emerge from its chrysalis is enough to evoke wonder even from the most world-weary of souls.
  — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2013
• The entire cocoon, or chrysalis, will then be veiled in a shroud of clear balloons with a hint of iridescence.
  — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• But not much later, even in the stifling silence of my news chrysalis, the doubts began to penetrate.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2018
• Students in dark suits, who had spent the summer in the corporate chrysalis of banks and consulting firms, rushed ahead.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• That emotional chrysalis has a lot to do with her personal life.
  — Justine Harman, Glamour, 4 Feb. 2018
• About halfway through the plot, Orlando—born a man—falls into a deep sleep as into a chrysalis and emerges as a woman.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2020
• The chrysalis slowly faded from a jade green to clear, revealing orange wings.
  — Larell Scardelli, Good Housekeeping, 8 Sep. 2017
• One body slightly raised up for a moment, appearing to emerge like a moth from its hardened chrysalis.
  — Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 28 July 2023
• This is the best time also to witness butterflies emerging from their chrysalis.
  — Jim Dobson, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
• Dylan entered his chrysalis at the start of ‘64 a scruffy, caterpillar — all giggles, baggy jeans, and naïveté.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
• And did Hawley have to take his eloquent first-act chrysalis-and-butterfly motif and beat it into such a blunt metaphor?
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• In recent years, the rigid chrysalis of the Middle Eastern military balance has started to crack.
  — Kenneth M. Pollack, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
• Week 4 All of the original caterpillar crew have formed beautiful milky green chrysalises with golden spots on the top of the tank.
  — Larell Scardelli, Good Housekeeping, 8 Sep. 2017
• Caterpillars eat the seeds, adults eat the nectar, females lay their eggs on the flowers in the summer, and the chrysalises nestle beneath the buckwheat in the winter.
  — National Geographic, 21 Apr. 2016
• Caterpillars eat the seeds, adults eat the nectar, females lay their eggs on the flowers in the summer, and the chrysalises nestle beneath the buckwheat in the winter.
  — National Geographic, 21 Apr. 2016
• Six years later, each man had emerged from a chrysalis of self-actualization.
  — Michael Ames, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2023
• But give the hapless performer vocabulary points for using the word chrysalis.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 19 June 2018
• From each spiracle, the blue tubes, called trachea, carry oxygen into the chrysalis.
  — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2013
• The staff around knew their stuff and were happy to take some time to explain the difference between a cocoon and a chrysalis and all about the wonder of metamorphosis.
  — Nathan Barry, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2010
• Viceroy butterflies winter-over in the caterpillar stage, while the white cabbage butterfly lives though winter in the form of a chrysalis.
  — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020
• One late summer day, a monarch butterfly crawled from its chrysalis in a suburban Maryland garden, stretched open two orange wings to dry in the sun and took flight.
  — Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2022
• The scans can’t yet see muscles or the nervous system of the pupa, which would give lots of additional insight into what goes on inside the chrysalis.
  — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2013
• The filmmakers use micro-filming to get an up-close view of the life of a butterfly from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to the emergence of the mature butterfly.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 10 Aug 2024