Example Sentences

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There’s some of the lush overripeness of Messiaen’s “Turangalîla-Symphonie” and the billowing fragrance of Debussy.

From New York Times • May 15, 2023

It yields a coppery color, with flavors of tart apples balanced delicately on the edge of overripeness and a slight mineral bitterness on the refreshing finish.

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2022

A poignant jumble of modernism and nostalgia, Europe and America, “The Rite of Spring” and “Appalachian Spring,” the symphony is — like Mahler’s Seventh — a study in overripeness and unsettled mood.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2022

"My grain must fall and rot in the field from overripeness because I have not the strength to rise and harvest it; then indeed must we all starve."

From The Gate of the Giant Scissors by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)

It is an unusual thing, an unfortunate and pitiful thing, when death comes to the wild kindred by the long-drawn, tragic way of overripeness.

From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir