masticate
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‘Conclave’ costars John Lithgow and Stanley Tucci can masticate the scenery with the best of them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
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
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
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
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
She spends much of her segment in extremis: absorbing a medical trauma, howling to save her life, ferally masticating arugula in some kind of furious fugue state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
Below, the best centrifugal juicers, masticating and cold-press juicers, and citrus presses determined by the hard-nosed reviewers on Amazon.
From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2018
Despite massively masticating, There’s no sign of your greed abating.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2016
The horse, which had been contentedly ripping up and masticating a clump of thick grass, stopped then.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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