- present participle of masticate.
masticating
Example Sentences
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“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
These machines are quicker and generally more inexpensive than slow or masticating juicers.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2020
Despite massively masticating, There’s no sign of your greed abating.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2016
The horse, which had been contentedly ripping up and masticating a clump of thick grass, stopped then.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
