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Examples of unripe in a Sentence
Bananas are green when unripe.
unripe and unprepared recruits who were sent into battle as cannon fodder
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On a hot morning in mid-July at the community farm, a patch of lush green ringed by high-rise apartments, Oh inspected his bananas’ progress: still unripe but noticeably fatter.
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Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2024
Scoring one is like winning the lottery May 7, 2024
On a hot morning in mid-July at the community farm, a patch of lush green ringed by high-rise apartments, Oh inspected his bananas’ progress: still unripe but noticeably fatter.
—Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
Growing Conditions: Full sun, regular water in well-draining soil
Size: Up to 12 inches tall and 24 inches wide in a container
Zones: 8–11
Ingesting the unripe fruit and leaves of lantana is toxic to dogs, cats, and livestock.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 July 2024
The data can be interesting, even if the look is unripe and sometimes crabbed.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
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Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2024
Scoring one is like winning the lottery May 7, 2024
On a hot morning in mid-July at the community farm, a patch of lush green ringed by high-rise apartments, Oh inspected his bananas’ progress: still unripe but noticeably fatter.
—Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
Growing Conditions: Full sun, regular water in well-draining soil
Size: Up to 12 inches tall and 24 inches wide in a container
Zones: 8–11
Ingesting the unripe fruit and leaves of lantana is toxic to dogs, cats, and livestock.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 July 2024
The data can be interesting, even if the look is unripe and sometimes crabbed.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
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