ferment
Example Sentences
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For that sugar to then ferment and produce alcohol, the person giving the sample would also need to have a yeast infection, she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
But although the intellectual ferment of Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries undergirds “Effingers,” Tergit’s heart lies with her characters.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
North Africa was by then the Bible Belt of the late Roman West, characterized by intense Christian devotion and intellectual ferment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
It is still unknown whether chimpanzees deliberately choose fruits with higher ethanol levels, which tend to be riper and richer in sugar that can ferment.
From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2025
In the closed, humid confines of the refrigerator, the smell had had the time to develop, to ferment, to grow bitter and angry.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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