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

"It was unripe — there was no action by the EPA that Louisiana could challenge," said Kron.

From Salon • Jul. 1, 2023

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

“Oh, bluster. I keep forgetting my symbol is a basket of unripe fruit. Why doesn’t the spring wind get more credit? Summer has all the fun.”

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan