Sentences with ripe
ripe
R r - Always choose firm, but ripe fruit.
- Conditions were ripe for an outbreak of cholera. [+ for]
- Ripe, in its basic application, implies readiness to be harvested, eaten, used, etc. [ripe apples, cheese, etc.] and, in extended use, full readiness for action, etc. [ripe for change]; mature implies full growth or development, as of living organisms, the mind, etc. [a mature tree, mature judgment]; mellow suggests the qualities typical of ripe fruit, such as softness, sweetness, etc. and therefore stresses the absence of sharpness, harshness, etc. [a mellow flavor, mood, etc.]; adult is applied to a person who has reached complete physical or mental maturity, or legal majority, and to ideas, etc. that show mature thinking
- ripe cheese
- A ripe complexion
- The time is not yet ripe
- ripe lips
- ripe wine, ripe cheese
- ripe wisdom
- A person of ripe years
- The ripe age of ninety
- ripe for marriage
- A boil ripe for lancing
- ripe, red lips.
- ripe scholars; a ripe mind.
- Of ripe years.
- A ripe old age.
- He was ripe for a change in jobs.
- The time is ripe for a new foreign policy.
- A ripe abscess.
- Reeling ripe.