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• The fruit ripened on the trees.From the entry on
• Also, you can plant crops that ripen earlier in the season to avoid feeding green fruit beetles.2015 July 15, “Green Fruit Beetle”, in The Daily Garden. From the entry green fruit beetle
• The bruise on my cheek had ripened into an underlying violet with an alienish green tinge.2007, Nancy Bush, Electric Blue, page 212. From the entry alienish
• The fruit looks a bit like a large pink mango or guava, until it has ripened.2003, Jessica B. Harris, Beyond Gumbo: Creole Fusion Food from the Atlantic Rim, page 20. From the entry smile
• The Jet Stars were always the first to bloom and ripen.1997, Mary McGarry Morris, Songs in Ordinary Time, page 104. From the entry Jet Star
• These missionaries must have behaved inamiably because a reaction slowly ripened against them.1958, John A. Arnez, Slovenia in European Affairs: Reflections on Slovenian Political History (Studia Slovenica; 1), New York, N.Y.…. From the entry inamiably
• During the ripening the cream should be stirred thoroughly and frequently.1913 June 20, J[oseph] R[ayburn] Keithley, “Methods of Determining the Ripeness of Cream”, in Farm Butter Making (United States Department…. From the entry butterfat
• As Jones’s “bananaphobia” ripened, she’s taken measures to accommodate it.2008, “Bananaphobia: The yellow fruit has no ap-peel”, in People. From the entry bananaphobia
• Evidently, during the ripening process, the solanines are metabolised to neutral saponins without the occurrence of glycoside hydrolysis.2005, Dietrich Frohne, Hans Jürgen Pfänder, Poisonous Plants: A Handbook for Doctors, Pharmacists, Toxicologists, Biologists and…. From the entry solanine
• In the case of wildberries, we estimated for each secondary sampling unit the total biomass of edible ripened fruits.2002, Écoscience, page 47. From the entry wildberry
• The earthworm, the koraning cicadas, the sun now the pallor of kavika, the starapples ripening against an olive sky.1997 [1994], Sudesh Mishra, “Lila”, in Wasafiri, volume 12, number 25, Routledge, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 37. From the entry kavika
• The cornfests later attracted as many as two hundred families, who came on the day the corn ripened to perfection.1996, William P. Everts, Stockwell of Minneapolis: A Pioneer of Social and Political Conscience. From the entry cornfest
• Matured in all the graces, he is like the ripened Chian clusters that await the vintager in the autumn days.1922, Arthur Benton Sanford, An Easter Disciple. From the entry vintager
• Ripening blackberries even now loaded the bramble bushes, but the foul noxiousness of gas shells had made them uneatable.1919, George Herbert Fosdike Nichols (a.k.a. Quex), Pushed and the Return Push. From the entry noxiousness
• When his strawberries were beginning to ripen Dry Valley bought the heaviest buggy whip in the Santa Rosa store.1907, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson”, in Heart of the West, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry buggy whip
• The Manzanillo, or "little apple," olive had larger fruit and ripened earlier than the Mission, and produced both excellent oil and good table fruits.2009, Susan Dolan, “Orchard Specialization and Industrialization, 1881-1945”, in Fruitful Legacy: A Historic Context of Orchards in the…. From the entry manzanillo
• The changes in texture that occur during ripening and cooking result from changes in the cell-wall materials, in particular the cement carbohydrates.2004, Harold McGee, chapter 5, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN. From the entry hemicellulose
• Rudnicki and colleagues found ABA to increase with ripening of strawberry fruits (16) and of pears (17) and during the development of apple fruits (18).1972, Davis LA, Addicott FT, “Abscisic Acid: Correlations with Abscission and with Development in the Cotton Fruit”, in Plant Physiology…. From the entry aba
• Thus, “the idea of Europe” was fundamentally forged out of war-weary dreams of unity: postwar Europe was always the venue for ripening cosmopolitan and unification models.2011 October, Mary N. Hampton, “Between Euroland and Abendland? Opportunities and Challenges for German Foreign Policy since Unification”…. From the entry war-weary
• He asked Ras why the green christophine vegetables we bought from him didn't ripen into the creamy white color we have come to expect from christophine.2005, Lona Gray, Caught by the Lure of the Sea, page 217. From the entry christophine

Meaning of ripen

1. verb Of grain, fruit, flowers, etc., to grow ripe; to become mature.
2. verb To approach or come to perfection.
3. verb To cause (something) to mature; to make ripe.

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How do you use ripen in a sentence?

Ripen is used as a verb. For example: “Grapes ripen in the sun.”

What is a short sentence with ripen?

“ripen the judgment”

What does ripen mean?

Ripen means of grain, fruit, flowers, etc., to grow ripe; to become mature.