ripening
- present participle of ripen.
Example Sentences
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While convenient, these warmer conditions speed up respiration and ripening, causing fruit to soften and deteriorate more rapidly.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026
Risk and ripening at Apple, Tojo’s destructive plan, a father’s formidable presence and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
This year marks a very different start to the strawberry-growing season than in 2024, when the fruit was delayed in ripening following one of the wettest winters on record.
From BBC ● May 18, 2025
“The circumstances are ripening in a way they never have before.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
The corn was ripening into roasting ears now, and the coons would come at night and strip the shucks back with their little hands, and gnaw the milky kernels off the cob.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
