Explore Cocoons through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Cocoons meaning
plural of cocoon
Using Cocoons
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of cocoon
- In the example corpus, cocoons often appears in combinations such as: their cocoons, cocoons and, the cocoons.
Context around Cocoons
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cocoons
- In this selection, "cocoons" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, literally, pink, budworms, outer and embedded stand out and add context to how "cocoons" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and pink cocoons and cotton candy cocoons and slurp. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cocoons" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cocoons
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mind-based cocoons have made them live within the spheres of mediocrity. (12 words)
Mutations in one or more of these genes produce the yellow, flesh-coloured, rusty, and pink cocoons. (17 words)
Though these tunnels are sometimes referred to as " cocoons ", they are not literally cocoons in the entomological sense. (18 words)
We’re shunted from our little festive cocoons where all is calm, all is bright, and mince pies are a perfectly acceptable breakfast food, to a more businesslike world where the sudden absence of twinkly lights makes everything feel that bit gloomier. (42 words)
The concept of these Living Cocoons is to facilitate the natural decay of the human body in a way that will benefit the surrounding environment, unlike conventional burials which can often result in polluting the surrounding environment. (37 words)
He moves through the film with quiet care for his children, for Gracie, for the butterflies he’s been nursing, helping protect them until they, like his own children, can leave their cocoons and fly away. (36 words)
Example sentences (15)
Though these tunnels are sometimes referred to as " cocoons ", they are not literally cocoons in the entomological sense.
He moves through the film with quiet care for his children, for Gracie, for the butterflies he’s been nursing, helping protect them until they, like his own children, can leave their cocoons and fly away.
Mutations in one or more of these genes produce the yellow, flesh-coloured, rusty, and pink cocoons.
To do this, Maine opened the country’s only spruce budworm lab, where limbs from hundreds of areas across Maine are taken each winter and inspected for signs of overwintering budworms: cocoons.
The concept of these Living Cocoons is to facilitate the natural decay of the human body in a way that will benefit the surrounding environment, unlike conventional burials which can often result in polluting the surrounding environment.
Their bizarre appearances don't initially frighten victims, allowing the "klowns" to get close enough to wrap them up in cotton candy cocoons and slurp up their liquified corpses.
Silk is a fibre that silkworms and other insects weave to make their webs and cocoons — outer casings that protect them during the pupal stage.
We’re shunted from our little festive cocoons where all is calm, all is bright, and mince pies are a perfectly acceptable breakfast food, to a more businesslike world where the sudden absence of twinkly lights makes everything feel that bit gloomier.
Mind-based cocoons have made them live within the spheres of mediocrity.
Pruning winter cocoons from oak, apple, pear and other trees before April leaf-out, is by far the most effective and least expensive means of reducing populations.
Broodcomb becomes dark over time, because of the cocoons embedded in the cells and the tracking of many feet, called travel stain by beekeepers when seen on frames of comb honey.
China and East Asia The weaving of silk from silkworm cocoons has been known in China since about 3 500 BCE.
Some species shed them into the water, some lay them in a burrow or tube, and some protect them by cocoons or gelatinous strings.
There is a gland under the mouth that secretes a viscous liquid which solidifies into the silk they use to produce their cocoons.
The silk farmers then heat the cocoons to kill them, leaving some to metamorphose into moths to breed the next generation of caterpillars.
Common combinations with cocoons
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: