Sentences with chrysalis
chrys·a·lis
C c - ...a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis.
- However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
- To attack a Beethoven sketch is brazenness in extreme, for the magical transformation from his rough draft to end product would be like an unknowing child trying to guess what the chrysalis or tadpole might become.
- An inflexible innate preference for the color blue, for instance, could mean death for a butterfly that emerged from its chrysalis in a meadow filled with yellow and pink flowers.
- For example he writes, ‘Ideally, marriage also enhances the life of the child, by providing it with a chrysalis of nurture and love.
- A pupa is an insect in the intermediate stage between larva and adult; the term chrysalis is used of a butterfly or moth in this intermediate stage.
- Tradition, properly understood, is not only the chrysalis ; it's the butterfly.
- Indeed, the next day we're ready to emerge from our chrysalis for some shopping in town.
- Nijhout showed that before the caterpillar retires into its chrysalis to transform into a butterfly, the position of the spots on the future wings has been established.
- The effect is that of a chrysalis in a cocoon struggling to get free and, at points, of a body emerging from its death shroud.
- Only then do they desist, becoming immobile in a hard chrysalis suspended from a leaf or stem of the larval host plant until emerging as an adult butterfly.
- Unlike the mopane worm, which over-winters in the chrysalis or pupa stage, Thongolifha overwinters in the adult stage.
- A determined butterfly struggled for release from its chrysalis as raindrops fell, tearing holes in its unfolding wings.
- Already, the gross excrescence that is slowly emerging from its chrysalis is provoking horror among local residents, as its impact on a once gracious townscape becomes evident.
- After a Harris' checkerspot emerges from its chrysalis, it feeds on nectar from a wide variety of flowers.
- My surroundings were only a chrysalis for me to burst out of and become something else.
- As the dancers broke through like butterflies from a chrysalis, the fabric hung from them limply, like some remnant of an earlier life stage.
- A chrysalis is the pupa stage of a butterfly - a protective covering for the transformation from caterpillar into winged insect.
- Don't tidy up too much in the fall; whether a butterfly overwinters as egg, caterpillar, chrysalis or adult, it needs a place to hibernate during the cold months.
- After feeding, caterpillars pupate in a chrysalis, then transform into beautiful butterflies.
- Two other shortcomings inhibited the theatrical chrysalis from blossoming.