mastication
Example Sentences
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Forest Service spokesman Stanley Bercovitz said Yosemite has a good track record of letting fires do their natural work on the landscape, as well as a history of prescribed burns and mastication with heavy machinery.
From Los Angeles Times
The "Saturn's ring" region — that's what we Cookies call the space in between our edges and our centers — should be distinctly chewy, a clenched tightness that elicits some mastication.
From Salon
Some world-altering books arrive wrapped in dense, difficult prose, requiring prolonged mastication.
From New York Times
Chewing may be uniquely unphotogenic: it turns out, all those times we went out to dinner before, we were just putting up with each other’s mastication as the price of companionship.
From The Guardian
On Thursday, Chestnut posted video of record-breaking Big Mac mastication to YouTube, calmly downing 32 Big Macs in less than 40 minutes from the comfort of his own kitchen.
From Golf Digest
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