Masticate

Are you just going to stand there and masticate in front of everyone?

If one chooses to masticate with one's mouth open at this restaurant, please be aware that this is a serious offense which may result in the revocation of one's premium members' card, requests to leave the premises, and/or feelings of disgust from patrons and staff.

Eat slowly, at regular hours, and masticate well, but do not bolt your food, or eat any thing that does not taste good.

The cow stood, quietly masticating its cud.

The fat boy rose, opened his eyes, swallowed the huge piece of pie he had been in the act of masticating when he last fell asleep, and slowly obeyed his master’s orders.

"By tasting it, to be sure," said I, masticating a morsel that Kory-Kory had just put in my mouth.

He resumed his meal. "I had no idea of it," he said, and masticated.

The vegetables were not to be cooked but merely grated fine, if I could not masticate them.

The friends watch the two make their way between other habitués masticating, drinking, crouched in a scrum of conversation[…]

At the moment Carter snapped, a lunch break in J&M turned into a blood riot when half a dozen technicians dropped their snacks and began cannibalizing each other instead. In I&T, their opposite numbers began beating each other to death with keyboards, chairs, and even computer monitors while their Chief masticated her husband's digits.