Mastication in a sentence as a noun

"edible" in the sense that they can be processed by mastication.

I, too, enjoy mastication with my denticles, fellow human!

I'm extremely sensitive to sound - mastication, burping, talking, music.

Blending does affect the mastication phase of eating, because you're drinking now, not eating - so you get much less of the enzymes associated with that process to help with digestion.

Insulin is the hormone that regulates uptake of sugars and mastication releases simpler sugars by literally cracking bigger ones?

I suspect that the amount of processing that's done to make a smoothie is significantly more than compared to mastication that it affects how the food is further processed by the digestive system.

There's an induction somewhere in there...Okay, I have a few more ideas, but I'm sure none of this is new, and I know nothing about this problem aside from the introduction to this article, so that's about all the mental mastication I have time for today.

You can have music without needing to wear cans, you don't hear jim's mastication or janice's burping you don't get assaulted by emily's lack of hygiene or randy's mix of aggressive cologne and smelly feet, you decide what temperature you're most comfortable at, you can work without pants, …The main issue would be 'net connectivity.

Some of the problems with dog breeding are due to the inefficiency of he breeding process, but others are simply the direct biomechanical consequences of the desired traits; for example the neotenous compressed faces of many lapdog breeds have consequences for mastication, respiration, and orbit shape that can't really be addressed without relaxing our selection for that particular look or accepting other tradeoffs.

Mastication definitions

noun

biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow

See also: chew chewing manduction