cocoon
noun
cocoonlike
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a word derived from
cocoon.
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
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
Not the shock of stepping from the isolation of their cocoonlike rescue craft into the worldwide media glare.
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2010
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
