overripe
Example Sentences
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More than 125 years on, the newly reopened villa still feels overripe in the best way: rich, heady and slightly dangerous.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
A condiment built for summer evenings, when everything feels a little overripe and golden at the edges.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2025
These are drawn using a medium that combines “gross but beautiful” overripe figs she found splattered on sidewalks, then pressed with crayon, iron powder and salt.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2023
Workers on trucks tipped 120 tons of overripe tomatoes into the main street of the town for participants to throw.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2023
One man in a fluffy robe holds only an overripe banana.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
