masticate

‘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

Like all notions that have been marinated and masticated by generations of academic philosophers, this movement has been minced to bits.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2019

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

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

With large mandibles capable of dismembering and masticating honeybees en masse — and stingers that can puncture beekeeping suits — the V. mandarinia has become an increasing threat to honeybee hives in the U.S.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2021

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

The horse, which had been contentedly ripping up and masticating a clump of thick grass, stopped then.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman