How to Use silkworm in a Sentence

silkworm

noun
  • Some of the fibers are far smaller than those of the silkworm and much stronger.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Silk is made by silkworms for their cocoons and by spiders for their webs.
    — Angela Chen, The Verge, 4 May 2018
  • Inside were two of the silkworms that had spun the silk for her wedding dress.
    — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 May 2018
  • In apparel, though, the weaker threads of the silkworm have reigned supreme.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2017
  • To harvest silk from silkworms, they must be boiled while still in the cocoon or the silk is ruined.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 25 Oct. 2019
  • These startups are far from the only ones focusing on silkworm silk.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 28 June 2021
  • To use it, researchers draw liquid silk from the silkworm's glands or dissolve silk fibers in solvents.
    — Harini Barath, Scientific American, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Inside each cocoon, the silkworm’s cells were dying so the creature could become a silk moth.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The silkworm is the larva of Bombyx mori, the domestic silk moth.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2021
  • The design is based on the silkworm moth, which can still find mates using pheromones even after losing one antenna.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Mar. 2026
  • In Laos, farmers still feed the silkworms with mulberry leaves, producing a fine silk.
    — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
  • One day while sitting under a mulberry tree drinking tea, a silkworm cocoon dropped into her teacup.
    — Emi Eleode, ARTnews.com, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Ann Galonska will bring live silkworms and will take you through the procedures that results in silk.
    — Courant Community, 30 May 2017
  • Here is a link to a photo of another male giant silkworm moth from Oregon as an example.
    — oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2020
  • When observing a silkworm, it could be said that the spinning of the web can be as beautiful as the web itself, that the work itself is the thing.
    — Literary Hub, 21 July 2025
  • The chains look metallic but are made of polyurethane colophony (rosin) and iron powder, and the threads are silk — spun by silkworms that the artist guided to do his bidding.
    — Scarlet Cheng, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Among the animals were water buffalo (the most important, since they were used for pulling plows), as well as silkworms, ducks, and geese.
    — Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • But the most common is Mulberry silk, made by Mulberry silkworms.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Mulberry silk, from the Bombyx mori silkworm moth’s cocoon, is the most common commercial silk.
    — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The material, produced by silkworms and spiders, has long been valued as a material to make clothes.
    — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2018
  • Another group of stinging caterpillars are the giant silkworms.
    — Jefferson County Cooperative Extension, AL.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • The researchers are optimistic that large-scale commercialization could be in the silkworms’ future.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Affixed to the top is a rotating arm that spins out a fiberglass strand around the rest of the robot, akin to a silkworm cocooning itself by spinning a silk thread.
    — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2018
  • The minimalism of the exterior continues in the airy guest rooms, with their glass walls and sculptural lamps made of silkworm cocoons.
    — Bianca Bosker, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2016
  • Pure mulberry silk made from silkworms that eat exclusively mulberry tree leaves tends to be the highest quality silk.
    — Erica Reagle, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 June 2023
  • Spewed from the salivary glands of silkworm caterpillars, this natural fibre is strong, flexible and biodegradable.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2012
  • Lazarus befriends Mary as the curious, fearless girl is out exploring the property and tending to some pet silkworms.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2019
  • Zhou is now in his third year raising silkworms rather than poppies, and says quicker profits have enabled his family – with six children – to upgrade from a bamboo hut.
    — Ann Wang, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2018
  • The exception to this was the silkworms, which Yoon used in brownies that had a very distinctive taste—the rich earthiness of the insect mixed with the chocolate.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2018
  • At the turn of the 17th century, the land on which Buckingham Palace now sits was a mulberry garden, planted to feed silkworms.
    — Noor Brara, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2018

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