ripen into
Example Sentences
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Clusters of small pinkish-white flowers in spring, a favorite of hummingbirds, butterflies and other native pollinators, ripen into delicious blue-black berries in late summer, providing forage for songbirds, animals and humans alike.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2023
Here's some of what's coming, whether to ripen into maturity or to rot on the ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2017
In that same paragraph, Justice Stevens made a second prediction, one that took a little longer to ripen into brilliant wrongness.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2017
“In my view Sigma Nu is honored that his long ago ‘pledge’ will now ripen into official full membership, a condition many thought already existed.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 5, 2017
It might ripen into something better than it now was, or, unromantically, it might rot away in his pocket.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
