These bananas are getting pretty ripe; we'd better eat them soon.
See those white parts on the strawberries? That means they're not ripe yet.
My kids actually like the sour taste of unripe cherries.
The apples are picked early, and then allowed to ripen in the
store.
Test the peaches for ripeness by gently squeezing them.
Wow, that cheese is pretty ripe; I can smell it from here!
The garbage is beginning to smell pretty ripe; I'm going to take it out right away.
Without proper sex education, the region is ripe for an
AIDS epidemic.
With voter discontent at a record high, the government seems ripe for change.
You can ripen the apples by placing them in a paper bag.
I think a lot of the raspberries are ripe now, so we can start picking them this afternoon.
The boys' locker room was
sure ripe after the game; I could hardly breathe in there.
The peach is a member of the rose family, and has a sweet smell when ripe.
Shakespeare wrote that "from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot, and thereby hangs a tale."
Brigitte Bardot once suggested that it is sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.
Elizabeth Montagu once noted that minds ripen at very different ages.
Nelson Mandela once observed that we must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Aristotle once remarked that wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
A Spanish proverb observes that women and melons are at their best when they are really ripe.
Cervantes wrote that time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Bananas are one of the few fruits that ripen best off the plant.