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Example sentences for: ripens

How can you use “ripens” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In summer the rice forms a green velvety blanket, then turns golden in autumn when it ripens and is harvested.
Then it ripens.
Such sights include the colorful “tams” (knitted hats worn by Jamaican men to cover their mane of dreadlocks) and the red ackee fruit that ripens at the beginning of the year.