- present participle of ripen.
ripening
Example Sentences
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Risk and ripening at Apple, Tojo’s destructive plan, a father’s formidable presence and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Back at base camp, the fruits were frozen to halt further ripening.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2025
Without workers, the juicy beefsteak tomatoes that are ripening and must be hand-harvested will rot on the vines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025
This year marks a very different start to the strawberry-growing season than in 2024, when the fruit was delayed in ripening following one of the wettest winters on record.
From BBC ● May 18, 2025
If you planted pumpkin seeds there, in a few months there would be large plants growing across the ground, and a few months after that, there would be great yellow pumpkins ripening in the sun.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
