mastication
Example Sentences
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Forest Service spokesman Stanley Bercovitz said Yosemite has a good track record of letting fires do their natural work on the landscape, as well as a history of prescribed burns and mastication with heavy machinery.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2022
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
