I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
spin
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It is like the mind spinning a cocoon around the I and Thou.
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Most towns had a plant or two to spin locally produced cocoons into thread.
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The ants' larvae possess silk glands with which they spin their own pupal cocoons .
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By contrast, all of the parasites gained access to the larvae before they spun cocoons .
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The caterpillar had probably fed for a month or more on the viburnum leaves before spinning its elaborate double cocoon .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the cocoon of our hotel room
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These children live outside the cocoon of the middle class.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Annie felt her hand enclosed in a warm cocoon of talcum powder and smooth baby skin.
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But it was clear to all that the then Massachusetts governor would have fit snugly into the capital cocoon .
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He had rolled through childhood in a warm cocoon of love provided by endless cousins, uncles, aunts and servants.
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I dangled for three days and three nights in a cocoon of ropes from the rafters in the attic.
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Some species attach the cocoons to stones underwater and others carry the cocoons with them until the young hatch.
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The silken cocoons of these two other moths are tough roundish structures built inside leaves rolled together.
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Their many tiny cocoons now completely filled the moth cocoon.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Pheiffer warns that we should not cocoon our daughters, even if it were possible.