Get to know Cocooned better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Cocooned meaning
- Enclosed in a cocoon.
- Isolated, especially in an environment that limits interaction with whatever is outside it.
- Stored in an inactive state; mothballed.
Using Cocooned
- The main meaning on this page is: Enclosed in a cocoon. | Isolated, especially in an environment that limits interaction with whatever is outside it. | Stored in an inactive state; mothballed.
- In the example corpus, cocooned often appears in combinations such as: cocooned in.
Context around Cocooned
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cocooned
- In this selection, "cocooned" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, independent, people, island, indoors, blinkered and himself stand out and add context to how "cocooned" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include cocooned in the and cocooned in white. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cocooned" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cocooned
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sitting inside, I felt absolutely cocooned in it. (8 words)
How drinking cocooned them from pressure of fame. (8 words)
He has always cocooned himself in his own highly personal creative universe. (12 words)
The British were moving their officials (the need for a parliament did not come up till 1919) to a peaceful island, cocooned against organised protests by lawn and forest (equally in Shimla in summer and New Delhi in winter). (39 words)
The US Department of Justice indictment, which makes essential if grotesque reading, links journalism on national security matters to the punitive nature of the national security state, cocooned, as it were, by the US Espionage Act of 1917. (38 words)
For the better part of 12 years, she has been reinforced in the idea that the Republicans in her district are ideologically independent, cocooned from the national party as it leaps from one identity to the next. (37 words)
Example sentences (16)
For the better part of 12 years, she has been reinforced in the idea that the Republicans in her district are ideologically independent, cocooned from the national party as it leaps from one identity to the next.
Cocooned in the air-conditioned comfort of the members' area, on an appallingly hot Saturday afternoon, the 19-year-old enthusiastically unpacked her life.
Cocooned in white bags and nestled in the arms of volunteers, eight young rhim gazelles -- an endangered species native to North Africa -- have been transferred to an uninhabited Libyan island.
As for the athletes, they—like so many of us—have cocooned with their families to wait Covid-19 out, hoping against hope that they will be able to go back to work.
The US Department of Justice indictment, which makes essential if grotesque reading, links journalism on national security matters to the punitive nature of the national security state, cocooned, as it were, by the US Espionage Act of 1917.
With people cocooned indoors due to the lockdown, there have been several instances where wildlife has made appearance in places one wouldn’t normally expect to see them.
But in my final analysis, it is still a cocooned, blinkered experience of South Africa that could do without the overreliance on the Silo district.
Colour gets too bright, sounds are jarring and it feels like I’m cocooned in bubblewrap, unable to get back to reality.
Situated within a botanical garden at the East end of Roland Garros, the court is cocooned by greenhouses featuring rare tropical plants.
The British were moving their officials (the need for a parliament did not come up till 1919) to a peaceful island, cocooned against organised protests by lawn and forest (equally in Shimla in summer and New Delhi in winter).
He has always cocooned himself in his own highly personal creative universe.
Sitting inside, I felt absolutely cocooned in it.
The sunglasses - which cocooned the eyes in an air-military manner, were inspired by Briseis, wife of Achilles (now that’s thrown you) - who was “virtually written out of Homer’s version”.
We live in a drafty old house in the Plateau and I’ve spent too much time over the past few months cocooned in blankets, armed with mugs of tea.
How drinking cocooned them from pressure of fame.
Operational history Cocooned Lockheed P-38 Lightnings and North American Aviation P-51 Mustangs line the decks of a U.S. Navy Escort "Jeep" Carrier (CVE) ready for shipment to Europe from New York.
Common combinations with cocooned
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- cocooned in 5×