Example Sentences

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When it was time for bed, I would curl up in the cocoonlike cabin, safe from the elements lurking outside the vehicle: raccoons, stink bugs, the coronavirus.

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2020

Made in 1914-16, the portrait shows her swathed in a white, oddly elongated, cocoonlike dress against a blue background decorated with cartoonish Asian figures.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2016

There was the mink-trimmed jacket from The Row, spotted at Zoë in Brooklyn last week, or the Tiffany blue cocoonlike Céline coat, marked at $2,730, a 40 percent discount.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2012

Trockel has placed them alongside six wool sculptures by Judith Scott, an American autodidact: deaf and mute, institutionalised most of her life, she created cocoonlike forms from lengths of coloured string.

From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2012

Huddled in their outposts scattered along the continental shelf, scientists and technicians of a dozen different nations live a cocoonlike existence, surrounded by snow, space, mountains, glaciers and continuous night.

From Time Magazine Archive