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
The grub, upon hatching out, being as yet incapable of attacking the firm substance of the cotyledons, masticates the delicate felt-like layer at the base of the cup and is nourished by its juices.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall
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
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
But that’s nothing compared to the time spent masticating by our cousins: Chimps chew for 4.5 hours a day, and orangutans clock 6.6 hours.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
These machines are quicker and generally more inexpensive than slow or masticating juicers.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2020
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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