Example Sentences

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Supplying fresh foods, such as fruits, vegetables and dairy, requires skilled workers on tight timelines to ensure ripeness, freshness and high quality.

From Salon • Nov. 28, 2025

Its tone suggests sumptuous ripeness from the top of its range to bottom.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

Another prototype is an autonomous drone that uses vision algorithms to detect ripeness and grippers to pick the fruit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

Tesco is trialling avocado ripeness scanners and fans of the fruit are divided over whether it is a shopping hack or if a squeeze test should suffice.

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2025

He selected only the berries that were solidly ripe—not the light red ones, but the berries that were dark, maroon red to black and swollen in ripeness.

From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen