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Example sentences for "masticate"

Lexicographically close words:
masthead; mastheaded; mastheads; masther; mastic; masticated; masticating; mastication; masticatory; mastiff
  1. It must be very light indeed and serves almost solely to improve the appearance and the pronunciation; but when the individual gets used to it, he can also masticate with it.

  2. The patient was completely cured and able to masticate with the three teeth as well as before.

  3. If baking powder be mixed in with similar ingredients and baked, the result would be a light loaf, easy to masticate and digest.

  4. The heat sets the mixture in this raised condition, thus the cake or pudding is rendered light, easier to masticate and digest.

  5. When the child is eighteen months old it should have learned to masticate well enough to eat various fruits.

  6. To get the full benefit, masticate thoroughly.

  7. If people would masticate their starchy foods thoroughly it would greatly reduce the danger of overeating.

  8. Masticate thoroughly and take them with either butter or milk, or both.

  9. If the child does not masticate well, either grind the fruit or scrape it very fine.

  10. Those who masticate thoroughly are generally quite moderate in their food intake.

  11. It is necessary to masticate these foods very well, and avoid overeating.

  12. Let the children masticate them, as they should, and as they will not if the starches are moistened with milk.

  13. At the end of the third year it is time enough to begin to feed the salad vegetables, though they may be given earlier to children who masticate well.

  14. Be sure that the children have learned to masticate well before giving bananas, and then give only ripe ones.

  15. To get the best results it is absolutely necessary to masticate all starchy foods well.

  16. Thoroughly masticate and insalivate all your food.

  17. Nuts should not be given until the children are old enough to masticate them thoroughly.

  18. Fourth, Thoroughly masticate all food: Horace Fletcher has written a very enthusiastic book on this subject.

  19. The sweet fruits require so much mastication that only their juices should be fed until the child is old enough to masticate thoroughly.

  20. Defn: To chew or masticate again; to chew over and over, as the cud.

  21. One of the double teeth, used to grind or masticate the food; a molar.

  22. Take the meals at stated hours; be punctual in attendance, regular in eating, and thoroughly masticate your food.

  23. I managed with the aid of some water to masticate a fair quantity, but it might be a long time even now before I could gain the shore, and even then I might be disappointed in obtaining food.

  24. Though I could drink the liquid, it was with difficulty that I could masticate the latter, but I managed to get down a few pieces.

  25. Though I was hungry I could not masticate the smallest portion of my bun, but I tried to arouse myself and began once more to move about.

  26. If she should masticate food her own poison would destroy her life.

  27. And he took her teeth out of her mouth so that she should not masticate food.

  28. It is important, therefore, that we have good teeth and that we take time to thoroughly masticate our food, for by so doing we prepare it for being acted upon by the juices of the stomach.

  29. After an exclusive dietary of milk dyspeptics should gradually return to a mixed diet, that is a regular dinner once a day; but eat slowly and masticate thoroughly; thus one eats rarely if ever too much.

  30. A person prostrated by disease has not the strength to masticate solid food and that is another reason why liquid food is to be given.

  31. Adults or grown persons have also their share of stomach troubles; as a rule they eat too much, too fast and do not masticate their food sufficiently.

  32. Masticate all solid food until it is completely liquefied and excites in an irresistible manner the swallowing reflex or swallowing impulse.

  33. Take time to masticate and cultivate a cheerful appetite while you eat.

  34. If the palate becomes dull by repeated tasting, one of the best ways of refreshing it, is to masticate an apple, or to wash your mouth well with milk.

  35. He who had devoured the sheep, longed to masticate the shepherd!

  36. Horses that are greedy feeders and have sharp, uneven, smooth or diseased teeth are unable to masticate the feed properly.

  37. In order to stand severe work the animal must be able to masticate the feed, and prepare it for digestion in the stomach and intestines.

  38. In old age the tables of the molar teeth may become so smooth that the horse cannot grind or masticate the feed.

  39. That's where we missed it," grumbled Giraffe, after giving up in disgust all efforts to masticate some of his portion.

  40. But then, hungry boys can masticate what would prove a difficult task to one whose teeth were less sharp; and besides, as that was Giraffe's bear; of course it would taste especially fine to him.

  41. They are fed three or four times a day by their nurses, who take care to masticate the food for them, and thus prepare it for their tender mouths.

  42. Although their general use is to masticate or crush the food for the insect, this apparatus is often employed as a formidable weapon of defence, or offence; and very frequently in the excavation of a nest or retreat for the insect.

  43. Christopher D'Acosta relates that the Indians employ a kind of hemp called Bangue for the same purpose: and in St. Domingo their supposed prophets masticate a plant called Cohaba.

  44. Amongst the many absurd fancies regarding the dead, was the superstitious belief of their being able to masticate in their coffin any substance buried with them.

  45. As soon as we thoroughly master a volume we can masticate it, pages, binding, everything.

  46. Sayre bit out a page from the pad and began to masticate it.

  47. The creature opens its cavernous mouth to seize a floating gourd; and now it tears up the great fleshy arum roots from the clay bank, and grinding them to pulp, sinks below to masticate its meal.

  48. Taking time enough to =Should tooth powder or paste be | | masticate food thoroughly before used?

  49. The man who does not have such faeces should understand that he has eaten too much of unwholesome food, and has failed to masticate it well.

  50. One writer goes so far as to say that, if only we would masticate our food thoroughly well, so that every particle of it is mixed with the saliva, then we should not have to eat more than five or ten tolas of food.

  51. As said above, it is of the utmost importance to masticate the food thoroughly well.

  52. Masticate well every mouthful of food, whether it seems to need it or not.

  53. He should swallow the seeds and pulp whole, and masticate and swallow the skins.

  54. Eat deliberately and decorously (there can be no harm in repeating this precept), masticate your food thoroughly, and beware of drinking too much ice-water.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "masticate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bite; chew; chump; crunch; crush; gnash; gnaw; grind; gum; macerate; mash; masticate; mill; mouth; mumble; munch; nibble; pulp; ruminate; scrunch; smash; squash