ripen into

Clusters of small pinkish-white flowers in spring, a favorite of hummingbirds, butterflies and other native pollinators, ripen into delicious blue-black berries in late summer, providing forage for songbirds, animals and humans alike.

But others found them lifelike and praised her for unflinching portrayals of women who were engulfed by intolerant social conventions or caught in loveless marriages, and of families unsympathetic to female friendships that ripen into love.

Their shared jokes have those charged moments that ripen into a flirtation, which soon turns, Aronke believes, into an exclusive relationship.

For though my own art career had come to a crashing halt, my girl cousins had to spend their Saturday mornings drawing circles, then on to ovals, before finally these ovals were allowed to ripen into apples.

Few politicians remain in the fray long enough for their flaws to ripen into quirks, much less for their quirks to become selling points.