Example Sentences

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He explained how the pollination process works and detailed the numerous ways employees try to protect the fruit while it is ripening.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2021

Orchard fruit, when it is ripening, is generally degraded by wet weather.

From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2021

Fruit is ripening and vegetables are shooting up in Lebanon's lush Bekaa Valley, but the head of the region's farmers' syndicate, Ibrahim Tarshishy, is still a worried man.

From Reuters • May 12, 2021

By setting simple parameters–the story of the 1960s–Mad Men shows over the years that, no matter how many times Don lights the same cigarette, the decade is ripening around him.

From Time • Apr. 4, 2013

The fruit is ripening, I thought, the birds are already here.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya