Sentence examples for like ripe from inspiring English sources

Heads pop like ripe grapes, bodies flail as they are sucked into jet engines and arteries spray all over white staircases.

The spikes, when they emerged, were heavy, like ripe fruit.

The poems are like ripe plums, waiting to be picked.

Behind the wax coats of Timothy McDowell's large paintings are images from nature, like ripe fruit.

The vision of the Juilliard's young dancers tumbling down like ripe Deliciouses is entrancing.

The leaves may not taste like ripe tomatoes, but they do have tomato flavor.

The fresh-as-a-garden green salad (medium $5.50, large $7.50) and exemplary red and green shepherd salad with its crunchy cucumbers, summer-like ripe tomatoes, black olives and onions were also splendid starters.

"He likes big, ripe, powerful wines," Mr. Darlington said.

Hesser liked the ripe fruit but found it clunky.

The home-cured salumi are to be treasured, using free-range mangalitsa porkers for the likes of ripe, purple coppa, smoky speck or fennel pollen salami.

The grapes exhibit an uneven pattern of ripening: a single bunch may contain both raisin-like, over-ripe grapes and green, unripened grapes.