Example Sentences
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Cocooned in the safety of a crowd, I could be cruel.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025
Cocooned against soil, nuclear bodies hunker and wait for some future hungerscape.
From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2022
Cocooned, you’ll taste your own recycled breath and hear your own heartbeat; you’ll sweat along every slope and crevice of your body.
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2020
Cocooned by unconditional loyalty, she recently began behaving as if she were one of the Barbz herself, rather than their leader.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 22, 2018
Cocooned in the flow of people, Fadi and his family were bundled into the house.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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