cocooned
past simple and past participle ofcocoon
| 单词 | cocooned |
| 释义 | cocooned past simple and past participle ofcocoon cocoon verb[Tusually passive] uk/kəˈkuːn/us/kəˈkuːn/toprotectsomeone or something frompainor anunpleasantsituation: As astudentyou're cocoonedagainst/fromtherealworld. Defending and protecting
Examplesofcocoonedcocooned In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. We tend to becocoonedin this establishment and the usual channels try to keep us here as long as possible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They will be sococoonedin their own ministerial world that they will not be aware of what is happening. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Sadly, their views are oftencocoonedin humbug. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They do not need to becocoonedwith restrictive practices and guarantees of state work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Yet we do not live incocoonedisolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Those who livecocoonedin that kind of political and physical comfort often can be much more detached, if not semi-detached, about these affairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed,cocoonedin their glass and steel offices and their limos, they will do better. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They will realise the nonsense of having prepared machinery and paraphernalia which is, as it were,cocoonedfor the ultimate of a war situation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We have been told that they are now to becocooneduntil new engines are available. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a fact that market forces prevail in one energy industry—coal—but the nuclear industry iscocooned. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is an extravagant distortion to call this a demand to be "cocoonedin subsidies". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There are those who believe that the countryside should becocoonedand preserved for posterity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We can therefore say that new towns arecocoonedin a suffocating featherbed of statutory protection. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They arecocoonedagainst such advice and pressures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Yet year after year as a nation we seem to havecocoonedthe initiative and enterprise of people with a web of restrictions and disincentives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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