Example Sentences

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Much of the fruit was ripening just as temperatures soared in late June, and about 20% of the crop was lost.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2021

When the game was ripening to high stakes one of the so dapper gentlemen approached the Earl of Birkenhead.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beyond the corn, a new crop of tomatoes was ripening; the cattle were fattening nicely; the flower garden was a colorplate right out of Burpee's seed catalogue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week the soup-tomato crop was ripening right on time, as the scientists intended, but for once its punctuality was a disaster.

From Time Magazine Archive

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