How To Use Overripe In A Sentence
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But there was a sort of bruised quality about her, like an overripe banana, sticky sweet and pulpy.
THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
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Already fragile, only hours away from being classified as overripe, they bruised instantly.
BLIND AMBITIONS
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The vintage conditions also were difficult enough to produce a lot of wines with overt signs of overripeness - which not only produces undesirable aromatic and flavor combinations such as prunes, kirsch and boysenberry syrup, but also takes away from any expression of terroir and really muddies focus and precision on the palate.
Bordeaux 2009: all over but the pricing | Dr Vino's wine blog
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Among these is the fact that, when allowed to overripen so that the pods split, the flavor of vanilla is at its finest.
Vanilla: A Mexican Native Regains Its Reputation
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Throw a couple overripe bananas (we call them giraffe bananas) in the blender along with some milk, plain yogurt and a couple of ice cubes.
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A three-course meal I clearly in the hoi polloi category had during Chicago Restaurant Week a few years ago appeared to be based on ingredients the restaurant needed to get rid of, in the form of overripe fruit served picturesquely on stale Italian bread.
#RestaurantWeak?
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What would be overripe overplotting in lesser hands becomes wonderfully credible here, with cleverly drawn characters (Paz and his most excellent mum must surely return), trunkloads of ethno-botanical factoids, and interspersed sections from Jane’s African logbook.
Tropic of Night: Summary and book reviews of Tropic of Night by Michael Gruber.
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Lately, though, there has been so much low-hanging fruit that you can't take a step in any direction without bumping into an overripe mango.
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While not as powerful as their influential triptych, these two films are still overripe offerings of cinematic salaciousness.
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The vintage conditions also were difficult enough to produce a lot of wines with overt signs of overripeness - which not only produces undesirable aromatic and flavor combinations such as prunes, kirsch and boysenberry syrup, but also takes away from any expression of terroir and really muddies focus and precision on the palate.
Bordeaux 2009: all over but the pricing | Dr Vino's wine blog
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After months of poison pen letters, being called everything from a 'mad cow' to a 'rosbif', and having a barricade put up in front of my shop, the temptation is to run away like an overripe cheese.
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Granite is an acidic soil at altitude and this combination of very hot days and cool nights means the grapes don't overripen and produce too much sugar.
Roussillon: One to Watch
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Some crops need to be picked everyday: zucchini grows gigantic if left on the vine and cherry tomatoes get overripe.
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The script is overripe, but give it time - I disliked this movie right after I turned off the TV, but since then I haven't been able to get it out of my mind.
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The section on overindulgence captures the well-known observation of drunken robins that have ingested too much overripe (fermenting) fruit.
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Even when they have fully ripened, refrigeration causes a mealy texture, and it’s best to keep them unrefrigerated unless otherwise they are going to overripen and rot.
HOME COMFORTS
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This book, his greatest (though he claimed to prefer two of his more refined and ponderous works), is lovable enough, unsettling enough and dissatisfying enough -- altogether granular enough -- that I hereby make the following prediction: "Huckleberry Finn" will never overripen, nor grow stale, nor ossify.
Books on Southern Humor
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She smelled unpleasantly fruity, like the statice Madda grew in the backyard, straddling the thin line between overripe and rotten.
Slice Of Cherry
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Those who refuse to carry California wine, when asked why, usually go well beyond “overripeness” and into culture.
Home field disadvantaged – NYT on SF wine lists | Dr Vino's wine blog
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The alcohol in overripe fruit makes wasps aggressive - they are the lager louts of the insect world.
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Nothing would please that overripe pium fruit more than to see Born vanish forever, leaving him a clear path to Brightly Go.
Shopgirls
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Dishes were washed and stacked on the drainboard and the only food on the counter was a bowl with three overripe bananas.
ANGELS EVERYWHERE
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An intricate world of colour, geometric pattern and form, from the blackened seeds of overripe maize, to the strangely ephemeral beauty of a poppy about to burst into flower to the gorgeous spines of a sprig of rosemary.
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As for his poetry, it may be a little overripe in places.
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It was "overripe," to borrow the term Johan Huizinga used to describe late Medieval culture.
Thomas Frank: Decline with a Chance of Fall
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To make the bruschetta, blitz the overripe tomatoes to a purée with the vinegar and sugar.
Times, Sunday Times
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Add the overripe bananas and a pinch of salt and stir with a spatula over a low heat until a thick paste forms.
Times, Sunday Times
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Zack wailed, mortified, his face turning red and giving him the appearance of an overripe tomato.
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The two major sugars that accumulate in grapes occur in about equal amounts; at the beginning of ripening glucose exceeds fructose (up to fivefold), but in overripe grapes there is less glucose than fructose.
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After medlars are picked they are stored calyx end down and allowed to overripen.
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He observed that only pulpy, but indehiscent, fruits with a juicy, sweet flesh produce ethanol when becoming overripe.
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In the past it has been my distinct impression that these terms have been code words for overripeness and high alcohol to my palate.
Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog
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Also, in hot climates grapes easily overripen, creating huge amounts of sugar that turn into alcohol bombs during fermentation.
News & Politics
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Do not allow damaged, overripe, and fermenting fruits to accumulate in the field as they serve as powerful attractants for the beetles.
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If you want to make top-drawer Zinfandel, planting it in cooler hillside spots is essential, as is restricting its yield and picking before the grapes are overripe.
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For example, you can make a simple but tasty sauce from overripe cherry tomatoes, onions and garlic.
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One overzealous man even tried to sell him some overripe tomatoes once, and it took only one glare to send the man scurrying on his way.
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The vintage conditions also were difficult enough to produce a lot of wines with overt signs of overripeness - which not only produces undesirable aromatic and flavor combinations such as prunes, kirsch and boysenberry syrup, but also takes away from any expression of terroir and really muddies focus and precision on the palate.
Bordeaux 2009: all over but the pricing | Dr Vino's wine blog
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And above all, what if those bands aren't the overripe gods of the sixties and seventies, but the inescapable products of them, either in worship or in reaction or both?
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The section on overindulgence captures the well-known observation of drunken robins that have ingested too much overripe fruit.
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My lips were split like a pair of overripe tomatoes.
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Allow the fruit to remain on the plant until fully mature (and a bit overripe, but not rotten).
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I couldn't taste fresh figs much, either - I might have used overripe figs and they might have gotten blended into the batter, perhaps.
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An overripe pear was hurled and left a brown smear on the upstairs window.
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His Swan Lake sets and costumes, informed not just by the overripe sensibility of the Pre-Raphaelites but also by Gustave Moreau and other decadents, look breathtaking on paper.
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Another sign of overripe mangosteens is a powdery yellow appearance on both skin and stem.
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But there was a sort of bruised quality about her, like an overripe banana, sticky sweet and pulpy.
THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
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One verb applies to mushy, gelatinous, overripe, and overcooked things, of which brains, bananas, and avocados might be examples.
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The opulence of such clergy as were close to the court expressed itself in the overripe late Gothic of the great collegiate churches at Stirling, Linlithgow, Rosslyn, and Perth.
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Alternatively, fruits were harvested at the ripe stage and left to overripen for 2 d at 21°C on the laboratory bench.
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For example, you can make a simple but tasty sauce from overripe cherry tomatoes, onions and garlic.
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He began ‘treating’ the book, radically abridging the overripe text with poems ‘found’ within each page and distributed over it in blurbs something like speech bubbles.
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All of which suggests that, just as either the overripeness or the rawness of what you serve can speak to your cultivation, to your acquired level of artistry, so cruelty can exhibit your refinement.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
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The largest shift in molecular weight occurred during the melting stage, but matrix glycans remained at moderately high molecular weight even in overripe fruit, and were not depolymerized to small size.
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Outside the recent and welcome burlesque revival, the concept of bawdy humour - something that's proud to be naughty and a little overripe in the interest of a plain old good time - has been largely absent from Toronto stages.
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I don't remember whose idea it was, but we began to pick the overripe mangoes and to throw them at the passing cars.
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Never mind about physiological ripeness, I have yet to meet a winemaker who is able to define what is meant by this term, for what is perfect in one vineyard is deemed overripe in another.
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With those yellow fruits forgotten and overripe in your backpack, make muffins.
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Unfortunately, the cherry cat moved with its owners and left the poor tree defenseless...some were lost to squirrels, others were lost to a thing that slept in the front garden, but most were lost because they were allowed to overripen and burst...
No Bake Mini Cheesecakes
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Once it turns clear, the tomato is overripe and flavor diminishes.
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So I'd become cold, prone to platinum cravings, and as easily bruised as an overripe apple.
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That is, if it would even snap, and not just squish like an overripe banana.
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It's a light sauce, made with overripe bananas and stem ginger, that can be added to everything from cold meat to stir fry and sandwiches,’ says Isabella.
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They're compelling red wines of pipe-organ depth and power without excessive alcohol or overripeness.
Two Worlds of Argentine Wines
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Pruny: Having the flavor of overripe, dried - out grapes. Can add complexity in the right dose.
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overripe" stage, the cataract would be completely white and block vision.
Health News from Medical News Today
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The most notable feature of the last decade in wine is – for my palate – the catastrophic slide of far too many wines into a Parkerista swamp of overripe fruit, low acid, high alcohol and enough oak to start a saw mill.
Wine trends of the Naughties – reflections through the wine glass | Dr Vino's wine blog
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One pictures lazy afternoons engorged on and sticky with pulpy, overripe South Pacific fruits.
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The scent was overripe, oversweet, mortifying and fructifying.
Wildfire
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Sam Tsoutsouvas, as Theseus, flaunts his habitual love affair with his overripe voice with an orotundity that reeks of self-adulation.
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The page-count also gives manga artists room to unfold their stories, shaking the last driblets of pathos from the often-overripe melodrama.
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Increasing temperatures in the French champagne-producing Epernay region are causing grapes to become overripe and too sweet, sparking fears the famous region may no longer be the best place for growing the grapes.
