Example Sentences

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Although the grape is known for being an uneven ripener, the cooler nights allow the bunches to hang on the vine for longer and develop uniformly.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2022

But the ripener closed shop in the storm Wednesday and wasn't scheduled to open until mid-afternoon Thursday, leaving some stores without bananas.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2010

Their shipment arrived by boat earlier in the week and was trucked to their ripener in Jessup.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2010

This gas is used as a ripener for citrus fruits, occasionally as an anesthetic for man.

From Time Magazine Archive

All pants, all is effort and toil 'neath the sun, The stolid old sun, tranquil ripener of wheat, Who works o'er our haste imperturbably on To swell the green grape yon, turning it sweet.

From Poems of Paul Verlaine by Brownell, Gertrude Hall