RIPEN in a Sentence
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27 example sentences for RIPEN, such as:
1. Fruit ripens not well in the shade.
2. We are like wheat, here on earth to ripen.
3. The peach and plum ripen in July and both are my summer fruit.
4. The grapes are ripening, the apple trees are heavy with fruit.
5. When the summer crop is ripening, the autumn crop has to be sowed.
2. We are like wheat, here on earth to ripen.
3. The peach and plum ripen in July and both are my summer fruit.
4. The grapes are ripening, the apple trees are heavy with fruit.
5. When the summer crop is ripening, the autumn crop has to be sowed.
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Meanings and Examples of RIPEN
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ripen
v. cause to ripen or develop fully
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1 We shall make our bed of dried leaves; the sun will shine on us as on man and will ripen our food.
2 And the ploughing of the further land to go on without a break so as to let it ripen lying fallow.
3 The air that would be healthful to the earth, the water that would enrich it, the heat that would ripen it, tear it when caged up.
4 Yet I am certain that he does not wish their intimacy to ripen into love, and I have several times observed that he has taken pains to prevent them from being tete-a-tete.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
Context Highlight In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
5 They reached the building, ornamented with magnificent fruits, which ripen at the beginning of July in the artificial temperature which takes the place of the sun, so frequently absent in our climate.
6 A little more sunshine to ripen the nut, then, not a boy's impatient shake, but a man's hand reached up to pick it gently from the burr, and find the kernal sound and sweet.
7 But those few moonlight nights alone with Charles had not touched her emotions or ripened her to maturity.
8 It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred.
9 But they were set among elms and lindens on a bluff which looked across the lake to fields of ripened wheat sloping up to green woods.
10 The wind made their clearings; the sun and rain ripened their fruits; and the snows came to tell them to be thankful.
11 A magnificent peach was hanging against an adjoining wall, ripened by the same artificial heat.
12 Lo, discord is ripened at thy desire into baleful war: tell them now to mix in amity and join alliance.
13 The fruits never rot nor fail all the year round, neither winter nor summer, for the air is so soft that a new crop ripens before the old has dropped.
14 The early apples were now ripening, and the grass of the orchard was littered with windfalls.
15 Instead of ripening its firm, down-running curves, her body was flattening and going a little harsh.
Example Sentence:
1 The peach and plum ripen in July and both are my summer fruit.
2 We are like wheat, here on earth to ripen.
3 Fruit ripens not well in the shade.
4 By changing the tomato's genetic blueprint , scientists can alter the rate at which it ripens.
5 The grapes are ripening, the apple trees are heavy with fruit.
6 When the summer crop is ripening, the autumn crop has to be sowed.