Sentence examples for cocoon themselves from inspiring English sources

His new classmates at Bard were similarly seeking to cocoon themselves somewhere safe and supportive.

We're troubled by those who cocoon themselves within the confines of their own communities.

Here, groups of up to five people can cocoon themselves away and drink in complete privacy.

Minority students in a predominantly white environment, Professor Buchmann said, often cocoon themselves by clustering together.

Lounges typically offer individual seating "for people who want to cocoon themselves," he said, as well as large communal tables.

Far-off relatives become strangers, while relatives and close friends living nearby cocoon themselves for the holidays, creating new rituals.

They cocooned themselves in blankets and pillows, entwined their legs and arms, and held on.

Even before backseat video came along, children were cocooning themselves in headphones connected to portable stereos, or with electronic games".

His friends, he writes, had cocooned themselves inside an insular world of all-conservative media, a practice which in the long run led them to lose track of reality and to be beaten in two consecutive presidential elections.

Bishop argues that this clustering of like with like accelerated in the tumult of the 1960s when, unmoored from the organizations and traditions that had guided their choices about how to live, Americans grew anxious and disoriented — and reflexively sought comfort in the familiar, cocooning themselves in communities of people like themselves.

There's more: a crude loft bed and shower (she's living here, too); several big fiberglass cones; a life-size cast fiberglass figure hanging by the neck; 100-pound bags of sugar; a video of opening night, when the artist and another woman rolled around in the vat, cocooning themselves in spun sugar.