mastication
Example Sentences
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Its goal is to get the park to do more thinning, mastication and biomass removal in addition to prescribed burns, she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 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
Donovan’s voice was muffled, with pauses for mastication, “He’s gathering data on electronic stream functions. We’re heading for a storm, looks like.”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
