mastication

Example Sentences

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Mechanical treatment includes wood chipping, mastication and removal of trees, branches, leaves, biomass and other material from the forest, which has built up in recent decades and can feed flames.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2023

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

Pathetic, and almost moving, when you think about it: the worst sinners imaginable, each doomed to everlasting mastication, are guys undone by the successes of their famous friends.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 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