Sentence examples for ripe come from inspiring English sources

Ripe tomatoes (and they must be ripe) come off as sweet, and when combined with the onions, to which I added a dash of sugar, together they tempered the acidity of the wine.

ALBERT BELLE PÈRE & FILS, CUVÉE LOUIS BELLE 1999: $25 Minty and ripe; comes alive in the mouth.

Many of his marvelous abstract landscapes — bathed in autumnal Keatsian mist, their forms as pulpy and sweet as peeled ripe fruit — come from this time.

Lamenting their neighborhood as a hyper-consuming area lacking cultural diversity, and still shaken by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a car accident that killed a close friend of Ms. Delgado's, the couple decided that the moment was ripe to come to France.

"The time is ripe for coming up with new ideas on how diaspora communities can make a contribution".

Even when these wines get really, really ripe, they still come off as balanced — powerful, but also lifted, possessing an ungainly equilibrium.

That's why she thinks a proposed initiative to raise taxes to restore state funding to state colleges and public schools will be "ripe" for passage come November's statewide general election.

Generally if it is super ripe it will come off with little resistance.

And then come Michigan and Pennsylvania, ripe with electoral votes.

Possibly, in Italy, peppers come so ripe that there's no need to bother, but in Britain I think it's well worth the effort.

To eat them where they come from, ripe but not quite runny, especially if they were made by a farmer, not a factory, is to taste cheese for the first time.