cripes
Example Sentences
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Zemurray had stumbled on a niche: ripes, overlooked at the bottom of the trade.
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2012
Whereas the big fruit companies monopolized the upper precincts of the industry—you needed capital, railroads, and ships to operate in greens—the world of ripes was wide open.
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2012
He figured it would go further if he spent it on ripes.
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2012
“The little fellow,” as the big wheels in Boston called him, but the little fellow would build a kingdom from ripes.
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2012
In candent ire the solar splendour flames; The foles, languescent, pend from arid rames; His humid front the cive, anheling, wipes, And dreams of erring on ventiferous ripes.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
