masticate
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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
Deeply sunk in a corner, he half opens a lack-luster eye, bites and masticates his old soldier's mustache—not long ago the only ornament on his face—and from time to time spits out a hair.
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray
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
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
Horace Fletcher masticated his way to slimness, chewing 100 times per minute, not swallowing till each mouthful was liquefied.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2010
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
“This never-ending task involves thinning trees with a variety of masticating and chipping equipment, chain saws and through the use of low-intensity ground fire when conditions permit,” officials said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
Despite massively masticating, There’s no sign of your greed abating.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2016
People go to the movies to be transported, but mass masticating, texting, and talking can make patrons feel like they’re in an experiment testing their ability to focus.
From Slate ● Dec. 27, 2012
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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