unripe

Example Sentences

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Tomatoes, for example, grow in clusters, which means a robot must carefully select ripe fruit while leaving unripe ones untouched.

From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2026

On a hot morning in mid-July at the community farm, a patch of lush green ringed by high-rise apartments, Oh inspected his bananas’ progress: still unripe but noticeably fatter.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2024

Some Chinese consumers have complained that durians are arriving unripe.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2024

Mendel observed the way that different physical properties of the pea plants were inherited: pod shape, seed shape, seed color, unripe pod color, flower color, stem length and flower placement.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2023

‘But I deem the time unripe; and I have no mind for strife except with our Enemy and his servants.’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien