mastication

Example Sentences

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The group’s goal is to get the park to do more thinning, mastication and biomass removal, which they hope will reduce the risk of sequoias dying in both prescribed burns and wildfires.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023

The food consumed is broken into smaller particles by mastication, the chewing action of the teeth.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The "Saturn's ring" region — that's what we Cookies call the space in between our edges and our centers — should be distinctly chewy, a clenched tightness that elicits some mastication.

From Salon • Nov. 3, 2021

It oils the wheels of mastication without positively boosting flavour.

From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2019

I grab a handful of Cheetos and feed them into my mouth one by one as if I’m operating mastication machinery, contemplating how to tell Fizz about the latest development on the Jeremy front.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali