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
• My son is feeding silkworms for an art project on the theme of reincarnation.
  — Jonathan Flint, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
• 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 silkworms rock their heads in the shoeboxes, looking for mulberry leaves.
  — Jonathan Flint, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
• 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
• The area around my hometown was once a famous silk-producing region, and my grandparents kept silkworms in six-foot-wide bamboo trays.
  — Jonathan Flint, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
• 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
• If this armbanded dama accuses me of destroying public property, the silkworms at my home will go hungry tonight.
  — Jonathan Flint, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
• 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