ripening

How To Use ripening In A Sentence

• Thus basal primates might have used ethanol plumes to locate ripening fruits as well as associated fauna.
• So numerous and various were the influences, formative and impellent, which combined to bring the colonies up to the precise ripening-point of their independence, as to make it difficult to assign each its proper force. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
• Never refrigerate tomatoes that are not fully ripe because cold temperatures stop the ripening process.
• It is left to mature in the cellar and the final ripening stage takes place in a spruce wood box, where the cheese is kept for at least 3 weeks.
• In climacteric fruits such as peaches and tomato, ripening is associated with a characteristic burst of respiration which correlates with an increase in ethylene production.
• When the summer crop is ripening, the autumn crop has to be sowed.
• Seeds and fruit are ripening on the trees. Times, Sunday Times
• Some people keep their bulbs in the refrigerator crisper drawer, taking care to avoid storing them with ripening fruit.
• In soft fruit such as tomato this process occurs early in ripening whereas in crisp fruits such as apple it is a late-ripening process.
• Acres of the perfectly uniform crops along the fens, the reclaimed marshlands of Cambridgeshire, are ripening, but until the rain lifts the harvesters will not be leaving their homes.