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- noun Plural form of
mastication .
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Examples
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She looked up from her desk with a smile, chewing her gum with tidy, efficient mastications.
Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011
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Baldy and Sloppy are back to terrify another coach-load of aspiring chefs with their indifferent mastications.
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She looked up from her desk with a smile, chewing her gum with tidy, efficient mastications.
Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011
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The finer mastications were named after the men who had hurt her or who had broken their promises and never called her back.
The Vorpal Blade Went Snicker-Snack : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2009
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Mingling their mumblings with his own mastications, thousands on thousands of sharks, swarming round the dead leviathan, smackingly feasted on its fatness.
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Even now, his lips moved in a leisurely, ruminative manner, reminiscent of die mastications of a bovine.
Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999
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"Do you extrapolate your mastications, too, and get frightened of the stink you might get?"
Breaking Point James E. Gunn
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Her dear garden in which she composed, ruined by the mastications -- machinations -- what was the word?
Once on a Time Charles Robinson 1919
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Mingling their mumblings with his own mastications, thousands on thousands of sharks, swarming round the dead leviathan, smackingly feasted on its fatness.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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Mingling their mumblings with his own mastications, thousands on thousands of sharks, swarming round the dead leviathan, smackingly feasted on its fatness.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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