Masticate used in a sentence

Masticate in a sentence as a verb

For some, meat is romantic and they like to masticate it.

I think the suggestions is that toddlers know the word "chew" but not the word "masticate".

Using "chew" rather than "masticate" is not talking to someone like they are a toddler though.

For me as a Portuguese mother tongue guy... masticate is easier to understand than chew!

It is basically sap from pine trees and such that the bees masticate and turn into a type of caulking for their hives.

Our mouths evolved to masticate much larger amounts of low calorie and high fiber food.

> I wonder if the word “masticate” zcomes from this ie vice versaIt does, the plant's resin is named after the Greek verb meaning "to chew".

Probably goes back to where the tree got its name, the Greek word, mastikhan, which means grind your teeth, and is the root for the English word masticate.

"The", "another", "masticate", "friend", and most other words with vowels and common consonants spend most of their typed lives on the home row. Both hands share evenly in typing.

But correcting the original "masticate" to "chew" is an adjustment you make based on the mentality I described.