overripe
adjective
overripeness
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a word derived from
overripe.
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
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 Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
"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 Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
