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"Ripen" in a Sentence (17 examples)
She watched the gardens grow, and she watched the apples turn red and ripen.
We hope that the jabuticabas ripen soon.
No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Bananas ripen quickly.
He is much attached to his sister, no doubt, and would lead a lonely life without her, but it would seem the height of selfishness if he were to stand in the way of her making so brilliant a marriage. 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 tête-à-tête.
She saw the fruit in the garden ripen, and then gathered; she saw the snow melt on the mountain-tops, but she never saw the prince.
How do you make avocados ripen faster?
Grapes need plenty of sunlight to ripen.
My tomatoes refuse to ripen.
Yanni picked the figs just as they started to ripen.
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Grapes ripen in the sun.
[…] the desert soil of the Great Basin is as rich in the elements that in rainy regions rise and ripen into food as that of any other State in the Union.
The acquaintance soon ripened into a warm attachment.
The warm sun ripened the corn.
ripen the judgment
When Faith and Love which parted from thee never Had ripen'd thy just soul to dwell with God
But the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatneſs. Proſperity ripened the principle of decay; the cauſes of deſtruction multiplied with the extent of conqueſt; and as ſoon as time or accident had removed the artificial ſupports, the ſtupendous fabric yielded to the preſſure of its own weight. The ſtory of its ruin is ſimple and obvious; and instead of enquiring why the Roman empire was deſtroyed, we ſhould rather be ſurprised that it had ſubſiſted ſo long.
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