chewed

The water carries minerals, and with enough time — tens of thousands of years, or millions — mineral deposits fill up the bone-shaped cavities in the rock, creating perfect replicas of teeth that once chewed ferns and tibia that held up a giant.

The subjects we chewed over were almost exclusively technical topics, or history, or the sprawling, self-serving institution that Dwight Eisenhower christened the military-industrial complex.

It chewed up 10 minutes and 29 seconds, but ended in a field goal.

Another was chewed up, or trampled, or both, by a cow.

Airlines usually have strict restrictions involving rodents on board planes in order to prevent electrical wiring being chewed through.