There he sits miserably upon the edge of a chair, masticating cake, and hoping against hope that the ceremony will end before his relatives have said or done something particularly disastrous.
If not, I shall be grateful if you will refrain from masticating your surplus breakfast in my right ear.
Eat a bunch of grapes, thoroughly masticating the skins, swallowing seeds and pulp whole.
Their uses, which have already been mentioned in connection with the different organs of digestion, may be here summarized: They supply the necessary force for masticating the food.
The tongue is used in talking, in masticatingthe food, and in swallowing.
One or two of them were masticating the goora nut, and others had their lips, teeth, and finger nails stained red.
There will be great difficulty in masticating and swallowing, as the food will come from the mouth in the form of wads, and as this soreness of the throat progresses food will also come from the nostrils.
After masticating the food the animal drops it out of its mouth as if to avoid the pain of swallowing, and also evinces great pain when pressure is applied from the outside.
Furthermore, he often ate to repletion, and bolted his food down withoutmasticating it properly.
The great majority of digestive troubles are due to the habit of taking food too quickly, and imperfectly masticating it.
It will be found easy to carry on conversation without disagreeable interruption and yet follow Nature's demands in properly masticating food by taking small morsels into the mouth.
History of Period of Regeneration:--I commenced under your advice, masticating my food thoroughly at the end of December, 1901.
Crushing coal so as to Masticating food so render combustion as that the juices of the easy and complete as mouth can act on the possible.
Mouths kept opening and shutting, ferociously masticating and devouring the food.
He watched the others eating, as he cut himself a piece of bread from time to time and carried it lazily to his mouth, masticating it slowly.
He leaned over to pinch her cheek, waggling it softly and masticating well before he spoke.
She ate slowly, her little finger at right angle to her movements, masticating with closed lips, her napkin constantly dabbing up at them.
The serration of the surface here is of so marked a character that Langerhans considered this part of the velar folds to act as a masticating organ, grinding and rasping the food and mud which passed through the narrow slit.
This merely consisted in thoroughly masticating the 'arva', and throwing it mouthful after mouthful into the receptacle provided.
It is stated that Mr. Gladstone formed the habit of thorough mastication by making it a rule to count thirty two while masticating each mouthful.
Some are used as feelers, and others as jaws for seizing or masticating food.
When one is masticating an appetizing meal the digestive system is being prepared for the reception of this meal.
I am personally satisfied that the best cure for overeating is food in less frequent meals and the practice of masticating the food thoroughly in the manner that I have suggested.
When eaten raw, dried Figs prove somewhat aperient, and they are apt to make the mouth sore whilst masticating them.
An after taste suggestive of [455] garlic is left on the palate by masticating Quince marmalade.
Then walking to and fro for a few minutes, he ended by going up to where old Dick, with a bandage round his head, was calmly masticating a lump of tobacco.
The teeth are important structures in mammals, being used not only for tearing and masticating food, but as weapons of offence and defence.
Note especially the "mastax" or gizzard-like masticating apparatus in the alimentary canal.
At the mouth-opening there is in some Echinoderms, notably the sea-urchins, a strongmasticating apparatus consisting of five pointed teeth which are arranged in a circle about the opening.
Some horses have a trick of bolting their food without masticating it properly, especially if another is being fed in their company.
Quidding" is gathering up a mouthful of hay or grass, rolling it about in the mouth, and half masticating it till it gets into a lump or ball, and then spitting it out without swallowing it.
Thus the mollusks have a characteristic masticating apparatus; on their tongue there is a hard plate (radula) armed with a number of teeth, which grinds against a hard upper jaw, and so breaks up the food.
Furthermore, by thoroughly masticating our food, we know intuitively when we have had enough, and thus avoid overeating.
Eating slowly andmasticating the food thoroughly, we know, is the proper way to insure taking no more than is needed.
Chittenden, of the Sheffield Scientific School, of Yale University, in America, as the result of careful masticating and thorough tasting of the commonest of foods.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "masticating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
