Cocooning has been in our bank for thirty years.

Worries about such virtual cocooning may be exactly contrary to the truth.

"Cocooning will become burrowing," she said with great assurance.

"Cocooning" refers to the stay-at-home trend of the baby boom generation.

Since there is little in the area to attract visitors, such cocooning is in order.

Had Kirkland's warehouse been taller, the cocooning of four bays may not have been possible.

As it was, almost all the wondrous ice webbing and cocooning had broken up and collapsed.

For spring, expect the Faith Popcorn Cocooning collection.

Cocooning, say the experts, is an in-thing.

Not to mention "gated-community cocooning."

There have been plenty of generalizations about Americans' penchant for regional cocooning and their rampant Jetway aversion.

Mr. DeLorenzo said it's all part of the next trend, which he calls "the way we were," the follow-up to the current "cocooning."

The rise in sales is attributed in part to what the trend watcher Faith Popcorn has called the "cocooning" and "burrowing" stay-at-home habits of Americans.

Not surprisingly, capitalizing on the urge for this sort of brand cocooning has become the central preoccupation of the fashion, athletics and entertainment corporations selling these fetish brands.

A cynic might argue that all these activities qualify as "communal cocooning," that by its very nature life in a quiet, unassuming hamlet involves some form of villagewide intellectual vegetation.

Aircraft storage and the cocooning of some of these planes was the last major activity at Pyote Airfield, which was the responsibility of the 2753d Aircraft Storage Squadron.

Bush's reelection came as a big shock to some in the old media, like CBS MarketWatch commentator Jon Friedman, who deserves the 2004 Pauline Kael Award for liberal cocooning.

MATRIX The screaming winds of Cyberspace have created an elemental VORTEX around the emerging supernatural being... The cocooning of the two nervous systems in nearly complete.

A chapter in the book Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk has a character named Lady Baglady, who produces a short story called "Slumming", in which cocooning is mentioned as an ill of modern society.

But this sneering perspective overlooks the definition of classic cocooning, with its a sense of hunkering down, hanging crepe over the windows, battening down the hatches, waiting for this awful Taliban thing to blow over.

This leaves open the possibility that we may soon be grappling with concepts like "tract-home cocooning," "time-share cocooning," "split-level cocooning" and "McMansion cocooning."

These days, the 43-year-old Ms. Popcorn, who in 1969 legally changed her given name of Plotkin to Popcorn and whose middle initial is B. ("Not for butter, but Beryl"), is doing some cocooning of her own in this very unprepossessing ranch house.

He could live in a cocoon of his own making.

But the love only seems to work in a cocoon.

Inside the cocoon he cannot get that kind of information.

And he knows all about people living in a cocoon of themselves.

They were, after all, only a single generation away from the cocoon.

In the living room, the cocoons were as we had last seen them.

At first I thought he must have been killed by whatever made the cocoons.

We called out to them from inside our cocoons, but after a time, they did not answer.

As if the life force had emerged from its cocoon.

I could not see or hear outside of the dust cocoon.

A few minutes later, the fly was little more than a cocoon.

It is as if the lab has become her cocoon.

His cocoon was the same as hers on the inside.

If only she were home in her cocoon of solitude.

Wishing he had made one big cocoon for all three of them.

The time spent on the mountain, in a cocoon, waiting.

Richard and I still stood in a cocoon of heat.

There he was placed in a cocoon, like the ones we have here, for two years.

The cocoon is made of brown silk and can be found on the ground.

He moved the switch that would let the cocoon open.

She was asleep when it began to break free of the cocoon.

It was, he thought, like the breaking open of a cocoon.

Once one is inside the cocoon, the benefits can be formidable.

For many, the patrol car became a cocoon of safety.

Especially when it would provide a cocoon of safety in which she could raise her child.

We felt very lucky to be cocooned in our private space.

My work with the team had cocooned me away from the rest of society to a point where I took things for granted.

She was cocooned in the physical expression of his anger.

We were all cocooned in our own worlds, hearing something different, just for us.

I love to be cocooned for extended periods of time.

Since 9/11, we have been hearing a lot about "cocooning."

The living quarters, unlike those at the lake, had been cocooned.

"Why do I have this funny feeling that he's cocooned himself with a lawyer already?"

"That's the trouble with leading that cocooned life, you know?"

I let it out slowly, cocooned in a sense of well-being.

It looked as if she'd been cocooned by solid strands of air.

One has a powerful sense of being cocooned at several layers' remove from the world outside.

Cocooned inside the Host machine, he used his own senses to look around.

It is sometimes suggested that children are cocooned from the truth by innocence.

"This is the whole phenomenon of cocooning gone crazy," she said.

Cocooned in her own personal gloom, she was only mildly interested.

I was now cocooned on the job that was going to be part of my life for the next six months.

The lower half of the woman's right leg was cocooned in the peculiar crystal.

Once inside the car, she felt safe cocooned in the plush blue interior.

It was wearing her out, like being cocooned in a down straitjacket.

A hard, black substance cocooned nearly his entire body.

In all that time he had been cocooned in silence.

I was cocooned and completely immobilized from the neck down.

There, cocooned in a bathrobe, I could happily have spent the night.

Further away, his two companions still slept, cocooned in blankets.