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

"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

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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

These machines are quicker and generally more inexpensive than slow or masticating juicers.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2020

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