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
"It was unripe — there was no action by the EPA that Louisiana could challenge," said Kron.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2023
There was the all-night ache in my stomach after I had climbed a neighbor’s tree and eaten stolen, unripe peaches.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
