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Example sentences for: ripe

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In general the fruit should form in good-sized bunches on the vine, ripen at a reasonable pace, and be plucked when fully ripe.
"Instead of feigning horror over this week's developments, the time is ripe for Mr. Clinton to accept the realities of another major member of the nuclear club, and use his visit to make sure its government knows that its future lies in forging closer ties to the democratic West," Beck concluded.
The effect is that of a hushed chapel, and on the altar is this gorgeous riddle of a painting, with its tilted plate of ripe pears, its pendulous eggplants, its great blue-black bedspread draped across the lower half of the painting, and its round, wicker-wound ginger jar, carefully placed in the middle.
Those within a population who sympathize with an enemy's aims, and may render assistance when the time is ripe, constitute a fifth column , a term that goes back to the Spanish Civil War and the remark of a rebel general, Emilio Mola, to the effect that his four columns of troops would be supplemented by a civilian quinta columna , a fifth column of sympathizers, in their attack on Loyalist-held Madrid in 1936.
Gould (in another sign of strategic retreat) concedes that people have a biologically based "capacity" to view enemies as "beyond fellowship and ripe for slaughter."