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
• For those who have spent the last six months in an NFL cocoon, here are 10 questions and answers to help catch you up on the great issues of the day.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2023
• Stevie didn’t just want the band to go back into a cocoon again, a web of nothingness.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023

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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: 28 May 2024