Sentence examples for they were ripe from inspiring English sources
So in the 1990s, when the deregulation of international markets knocked down financial and economic barriers, they were ripe for the last transition: the globalisation of terrorism.
Because these online businesses typically allowed people to obtain drugs without being seen by a doctor, they were ripe for abuse.
The bicycles were hanging up in the shop and the man went along them, feeling their tyres as if to see if they were ripe.
Once they returned, they were ripe for recruiting into Mr. bin Laden's army for his new war, against the United States.
They found a small community of environmentally minded organic farmers who were picking their fruits and vegetables when they were ripe and were growing varieties designed for flavor, not shipping and storage.
"I don't remember which state that was, but I know they were ripe, so it must have been the South," Mr. Wilson said during an interview from inside his truck, as it rumbled across Ohio not long ago.
They are ripe for change.
When the "shoulders" soften, they're ripe.
Like the pheasants, they are ripe for a plucking.
They take the grapes when they are ripe, like great sommeliers.
