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Example sentences for "ripeness"

Lexicographically close words:
ripas; ripe; ripely; ripen; ripened; ripenesse; ripening; ripens; riper; ripest
  1. I wonder if there is any answering ripeness in the lives of the men who live beneath them.

  2. The culms of both, not to mention their pretty flowers, reflect a purple tinge, and help to declare the ripeness of the year.

  3. It is a nice point to pick melons at such a degree of ripeness that they will reach the market in firm condition, and yet possess the requisite flavor.

  4. This change of color is no indication of ripeness and very often deceives the inexperienced grower.

  5. In packing tomatoes for the market, those that are symmetrical in form and uniform in size and of a like degree of ripeness should be selected for filling any one receptacle.

  6. Miss Mitford, in the ripeness of her experience, wrote that authors "as a general rule are the most disappointing people in the world;" much preferring persons who loved letters to those who followed the profession of authorship.

  7. But there is in some (and I fear a great many) not only an acted but an affected enmity too, enmity rising up to the maturity and ripeness of malignity and hatred of the image of God, in all his children.

  8. One finds it evidenced in the social atmosphere of the place, in an increasing suavity and ripeness to be discovered there.

  9. The Child of that Woman upon whose knees she leaned her breaking heart had lived to attain to the perfect ripeness of glorious Manhood.

  10. The exquisite face was fuller, the outlines of the form displayed the ripeness of early maturity, the slender palm was now a stately tree.

  11. It frightens me, Saxham, when I think what a leaven is working through these boys of mine, potential fathers of sons in the ripeness of Time, for the ultimate regeneration of this vicious, degenerate world.

  12. Rawleigh, who, in his youthful hours, and even through his vagrant voyages, was at all times a student, in the ripeness of his knowledge was a sage.

  13. Richness and ripeness are not exactly the same.

  14. Once the ruddy starch-to-sugar mark of ripeness had been what human beings called Meditation on Connectivity and the Pyramids knew as a convenient blankness.

  15. Where once it had patiently waited for the state that Citizens knew as Meditation on Connectivity, and the Pyramid itself perhaps knew as a stage of ripeness in the fruits of its wristwatch mine, now it wanted a different taste.

  16. To her service he had dedicated the lees of his life and the ripeness of his knowledge.

  17. Then I think that Beatrice looked half alarmed and half diverted at the way of Dante's speech, and I heard her say, "Is not the spring of our friendship something too raw for such ripeness of compliment?

  18. Still, she was not over stout, but simply buxom, with the full ripeness of her thirty years.

  19. He was burning up with his inward fires--there was a new book coming to ripeness within him, a book that would be greater even than his first one.

  20. These things had been going on for a year; and now the book that had been coming to ripeness in his mind was ready to be born.

  21. The book had come to ripeness in him; the birth-hour was at hand, and he must go and have it out with himself.

  22. There is, even in intrigue, a moment of ripeness which must be waited for.

  23. It would seem as if marriage was a state very much at variance with natural habitude, seeing that it requires a special ripeness of judgment in those who conform to it.

  24. A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge.

  25. The fervor of early feeling is tempered and mellowed by the ripeness of age.

  26. Conducing to ripeness or maturity; hence, conducing to suppuration.

  27. To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.

  28. A Virgin is chosen in the hope that when the ripeness of His time has come, He will be born again from that Virgin's side.

  29. Seeds are likely to occur in either of three different guises depending upon the degree their ripeness or the amount of threshing to which they have been subjected.

  30. Seeds are likely to occur in either of three different guises, depending upon the degree of their ripeness or the amount of threshing to which they have been subjected.

  31. Seeds are likely to occur in either of three different guises dependent upon the degree of their ripeness or the amount of threshing to which they have been subjected.

  32. And away you go in the chase of what the soul within is creating on the instant, and you wonder at the fecundity of what seemed so barren, and at the ripeness of what seemed so crude.

  33. Yet she is beautiful, just budding into the full ripeness of womanhood.

  34. A ripeness and maturity rest upon her look and figure that completely fill up that ideal which exaggerated fancies have wrought out of the Grecian heaven.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ripeness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.