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

Mary Berry will never masticate on telly again.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2013

“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

"Whiskers" has developed cannibalistic tastes, for the hardened skin around my finger-nails is a favorite morceau which she digs out with her sharp jaws and masticates with seeming delight.

From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by James Weir

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

Under its rules, the measure embodying the program, AB 1400, must be sent by Jan. 31 from the Assembly to the Senate, where it is likely to be masticated into the summer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2022

Some areas were to be left as they were, some were to be hand-thinned with a focus on retaining rotting tree trunks, and some were to be aggressively masticated and then burned.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 19, 2019

Like all notions that have been marinated and masticated by generations of academic philosophers, this movement has been minced to bits.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2019

Miss Trixie asked, sticking out a tongueful of masticated luncheon meat and bread.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

“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

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

I was likely just masticating anxiously in my sleep, the repercussions of which have earned me a super-sexy custom mouth guard in clear plastic covered by dental insurance.

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2020

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