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Birds have developed a digestive system adapted to eating unmasticated food.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

“You’ve won,” he cried, as the last mouthful was crammed with unfair haste upon its unmasticated predecessor.

From The Bigamist by Young, F.E. Mills

Foreign Bodies in the Air-Passages.—Foreign bodies impacted in the pharynx usually consist of unmasticated pieces of meat or large tooth-plates, and they occlude both the food and the air-passages, frequently causing sudden death.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

They devoured the provisions like ravening beasts, stolidly, silently, earnestly, in large mouthfuls which they shoved down their throats unmasticated.

From Liza of Lambeth by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

Food that is gulped down enters the stomach unmasticated, and unmixed with the secretions of the mouth.

From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by Napheys, George H. (George Henry)