Sentence examples for are only ripe from inspiring English sources

But there was a problem: truffles, which can take three years to grow, are only "ripe" in mid-winter.

The berries are dark violet-black drupes which grow in clusters and are only edible when fully ripe.

They are only at their best when dead ripe, at which point, to an even greater extent than with other varieties, there's a thin line between perfection and rot.

These are only two of the many arenas that are ripe for innovation.

An age of prose followed as humans became mature, but it was only in the "ripe" age inevitably metaphorically associated with senescence that language became precise enough to be suitable for philosophical reflection.

All of these areas are not only ripe for business but can save lives.

Inspect them to ensure you are cutting only ripe, red tomatoes, disposing of any moldy or mushy ones.

A private format that's not only ripe with irony but was also unpalatable to a large number of MEPs.

Smaragd and federspiel are merely ripeness designations, used only in the Wachau, with smaragd representing exceptionally ripe grapes, and federspiel representing classically ripe grapes.

However, orange, globular chromoplasts were only observed in the ripe RF of L. barbarum.

In the last several years, however, Albania has made enormous strides in democracy and development — and revealed itself to be not only ripe for tourists, but affordable to boot.