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
"They're just ripening at a phenomenal rate," she said of her strawberries.
From BBC • May 18, 2025
“The circumstances are ripening in a way they never have before.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2024
I reached out to slide open my bedroom window, to hear the sounds better and to let in the clean air tinged with goat droppings and ripening oranges.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
