Sentence examples for ripe to get from inspiring English sources

In crosswording, "first of ripe" is likely to mean the first letter of the word "ripe" and so in this Sunday Telegraph clue... 17a Nice sweets containing first of ripe fruit (8)...we take a word used in the city of Nice to mean sweethearts, CHÉRIES, and insert the "first of ripe" to get the fruit CHERRIES.

Not wanting my four ripe peaches to get smushed in the backpack, I opted for carrying them separately in the clear plastic bag I'd carefully nestled them in earlier, at the farm stand.

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Last year, when squirrels continually ate his beefsteaks just as they became ripe, he decided to get out of the tomato business and stick to peppers, snap peas, carrots, zucchini and pumpkins.

Startups like LocalMind have been trying to build these on top of Foursquare for a while, and the time might finally be ripe for Foursquare to get in the game.

We've been drawn in to new battlefields (Yemen, Syria), and other countries also look ripe for America to get drawn into (Libya) in the near future, depending on who becomes our next president.

"The region has an interesting combination of warm and cold temperatures, and the grapes must struggle to get ripe.

We're hungry now we can't wait till March for some old carrots to get ripe.

Because mangoes are such a delicate fruit when ripe, some pickers prefer to get at the mangoes in a more sophisticated way, by using a picking basket.

The most important thing is to get really good ripe tomatoes and extra virgin olive oil – there's no room to hide with only two key ingredients.

The New Yorker, May 25 , 1929P. 13 Two ladies returned from London tell how Fortnum & Mason managed to get eight ripe figs for them.