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

A jolt of dried unripe grapes and two fistfuls — exactly two — of cilantro, and the soup is done, he said.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

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

Hard tomatoes, so unripe they're white in the center.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour