ripened
Example Sentences
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A week later, even as artillery duels and fires raged in the once-elegant city, a headline in Newsweek declared, “Prize of the Pacific, Manila, Fell to MacArthur like Ripened Plum.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2023
Ripened by experience, energetic, disciplined, and a skillful observer, Hubble soon established some of the most important ideas in modern astronomy.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
King they hailed a branchlet, shaped to fare, Weighted so, like quaking shingle spume, When his blood's own heir Ripened in the womb!
From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George
Ripened in the field, where it grew on the flanks of great Haleakala, and eaten out of hand, it is a dream of tropic lusciousness.
From Time and Change by Burroughs, John
Ripened cuttings may be rooted in sand, under a glass.
From Gardening for the Million by Pink, Alfred
