masticate

One would hope that economic commentators coast-to-coast mentioned Green as their “person I’m most thankful for” at their family gatherings that week, because he gave them something to masticate ever since.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

And dogs have been known to yap and masticate their displeasure.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2020

"Nature will castigate those who don't masticate," Fletcher famously said.

From Chicago Tribune ● Nov. 19, 2014

Too thick to stuff into the mouth in straw-like clumps and masticate like cud, too thin to enjoy in isolation.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2012

“Cherries are the fruit. Pop 'em in, slide out the stone, masticate, swallow, finito. None of this...spatter and gore.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Several tense seconds pass as she masticates, before she declares the World's Most Expensive Hot Dog both "incredible" and "amazing."

From Salon ● May 28, 2021

With a final belch or fart, he’s off again as he masticates his final bite.

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2018

At first, it’s entertaining to watch as Penn bares fangs and madly masticates screenwriter Will Beall’s overcooked dialogue.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2013

These he pops into his mouth, and there is an audible crunch as he masticates them into oblivion.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is very fond of bones, particularly uncooked ones, which he masticates apparently with as much ease as meat.

From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by William Sleeman

You’ll be able to make your mark again, on a clean canvas just waiting for your expression of masticated public “art.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2023

One day it was a rich curried chicken, while nearby, the next day’s meal — a black-and-white cow tethered to a cellphone tower — placidly masticated some watermelon.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2022

But it’s been endlessly masticated by experts, many of whom assert that it can be fashioned in a way that passes constitutional muster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2022

And this was that loud, angry man’s greatest trick: Chew on something reasonable; spit it back out as a masticated, unrecognizable blob.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2021

He smears the masticated leaf all over Haye’s body, and then packs it with mossy soil.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

“We’ve been basically clearing the forest of trees that are 8 inches and under, pruning trees up 8 to 10 feet for ladder purposes, and then chipping, masticating or exposing the material that we cut.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023

The open question is what we are once technology is done masticating all those memories and stories.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

Another masticating machine, this one a steel chipper.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2022

With large mandibles capable of dismembering and masticating honeybees en masse — and stingers that can puncture beekeeping suits — the V. mandarinia has become an increasing threat to honeybee hives in the U.S.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2021

He adds that hard work is involved—“the tedium of going through what has often been written and read, and of masticating repeatedly, as it were, the same food.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith