MASTICATE in a Sentence

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1. You could see him approach the stove, in which there was never any fire, and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay.

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 Meanings and Examples of MASTICATE
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masticate
 v.  grind and knead
 v.  chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
Classic Sentence:
1  Mingling their mumblings with his own mastications, thousands on thousands of sharks, swarming round the dead leviathan, smackingly feasted on its fatness.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
2  You could see him approach the stove, in which there was never any fire, and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE
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