masticating
- present participle of masticate.
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
I was likely just masticating anxiously in my sleep, the repercussions of which have earned me a super-sexy custom mouth guard in clear plastic covered by dental insurance.
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2020
He adds that hard work is involved—“the tedium of going through what has often been written and read, and of masticating repeatedly, as it were, the same food.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
