unripe

Example Sentences

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Tomatoes, for example, grow in clusters, which means a robot must carefully select ripe fruit while leaving unripe ones untouched.

From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2026

On a hot morning in mid-July at the community farm, a patch of lush green ringed by high-rise apartments, Oh inspected his bananas’ progress: still unripe but noticeably fatter.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2024

Mendel observed the way that different physical properties of the pea plants were inherited: pod shape, seed shape, seed color, unripe pod color, flower color, stem length and flower placement.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2023

His sheep are fed a diet of saffron milk, dates and unripe bananas.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2022

We filled our pockets with unripe oranges that were sour and unbearable to eat but the only source of food at our disposal, and we were on our way.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah