masticate

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

From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2020

“If you want to try and just feed me like a baby bird, I’m OK with that. Just masticate that up.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2017

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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