fermenting
- present participle of ferment.
Example Sentences
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Fermenting pickle slices was challenging: When the bacteria eat the soft inside of the cucumber, the result can be a “mushy” chip.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
Fermenting yeast cells, the kind that resemble cancer, contained roughly 50 percent fewer deuterium atoms on average than the normal yeast cells, a startling change.
From Science Daily • May 6, 2024
Fermenting foods at home might seem daunting when food is something that comes from the store with a regulatory guarantee.
From Salon • Apr. 17, 2024
Fermenting vegetable matter — it was believed a temperature of between 67 and 75 degrees was most conducive to creating malaria — generated “carbonic acid gas.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2022
Fermenting adds Nothing to Manure, but makes it more available.—
From Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject by Harris, Joseph
