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Usage examples of "chrysalises".
Sleeping bags wriggle like chrysalises as bleary-eyed occupants try to focus on the intruders.
Once inside, though, the cloaks were discarded like so many unwanted chrysalises to reveal Paris couture fashions and jewellery to rival the contents of the Tower of London.
Even fruits and blossoms, and what looked like insect chrysalises and huge gossamer nests, glowed.