Definition: 1. Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used. 2. Fully prepared or eager. 3. Most suitable or right for a particular purpose. 4. At the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge. 5. Far along in time.
Use 'ripe' in a sentence:
1. Don't pick those apples until they are ripe.
2. He hurt his shoulder not long ago, trying to knock ripe mangoes from a tree.
3. He is certain/ positive that the fruit is ripe.
4. The British Foreign Office has decided the time is ripe to send its first female ambassador to the region.
5. The time may not be ripe.
6. For this purpose, select ripe bananas for freezing as they are sweeter.
7. He lived to the ripe old age of 95.
8. This society is ripe for change.
9. The conditions are ripe for the spread of disease.
10. The education industry is ripe for a change, and let's try to accept online education.
11. The ears of paddy are ripe and golden.
12. Ripe fruit does not travel well, but unripe fruit can be transported worldwide.
13. The board took the position that the time was ripe for expanding the overseas market.
14. Ripe melons harvested after a prolonged period of heavy rain should be less sweet than other ripe melons.
15. If he survived his 63rd year he might hope to live to a ripe old age.
16. Say good night sooner and it may help you stay active and vital to a ripe old age.
17. He lived to the ripe old age of 91.
18. Always choose firm, but ripe fruit.
19. They decided to wait until the time was ripe.
20. When crops ripe in autumn, fields turn entirely golden. People celebrates the good harvest happily.
21. The time is ripe for action.
22. The cherries are quite ripe.
23. Ripe with in-jokes, self-references, and post-modern metaphor, the movie questions a too-civilized world.
24. It is still too early.; The time is not yet ripe.
25. He told reporters that he thought the time was ripe for a normalisation of relations.
26. When crops ripe in autumn, fields turn entirely golden.
27. The wheat is just about ripe enough to be cut.
28. Ethylene is the natural plant hormone in fruit that makes them turn ripe, apparently.
29. Take into consideration that more and more people can afford robots, and the time seems ripe to introduce robots to the ordinary family.
30. When wheat is ripe, we would go there to help cutting in.
31. So say good night sooner and it may help you stay active and vital to a ripe old age.
32. The tomatoes are not yet ripe.
33. A hospital consultant said conditions were ripe for an outbreak of cholera and typhoid.
34. Haig's message was that victory was ripe for picking.
35. For this purpose, we select ripe bananas for freezing as they are much sweeter.
36. For this purpose, select ripe bananas for freezing as they are much sweeter.
37. Just rub some bread with fresh garlics and plenty of ripe tomatoes, then drizzle with olive oil and salt.
38. Matilda was born in northern Italy in 1046 and apparently lived to a ripe old age.
39. This land is ripe for development.
40. These grapes are ripe.
41. Reforms were promised when the time was ripe.
42. Those look riper than these.
43. For this purpose, select ripe bananas for freezing as they are much sweeter ．
44. The sky morphs into comical orange and pink colors and on a clear night, the sun looks like a tasty ripe nectarine.
45. The peaches are not ripe yet.
46. The peaches are ripe.
47. "Shake me, shake me, I pray," cried the tree; "my apples, one and all, are ripe."
48. "Shake me, shake me, I pray; my apples, one and all, are ripe," it cried.
49. You'll need four ripe tomatoes, skinned and chopped.
