Start with a fresh shrimp so the ripening is gradual.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Fierce Bad Agent] Reference

But sometimes the story is a bit late in ripening, and it's only when I see it laid out in bookform that I can see it clearly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friday follies] Reference

The Agro Park employs ethylene-based ripening, which is recognised internationally as a safe method for ripening fruits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

Meanwhile, while the assessment was 'ripening' it had gone up to over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Statement Before The U.S. Senate Finance Committee Oversight Hearing On The Internal Revenue Service] Reference

Most of my writing was on stories that are now "ripening" first drafts, see below.    From Wordnik.com.  [July Tally] Reference

Although this manner is also called a "ripening," it is not a definitional ripening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mechanism of Karma: The Mahayana Presentation, Except for Gelug Prasangika ��� Session Three: The Aftermath of Karma] Reference

Remember, "ripening" here is an umbrella term that covers several manners of giving rise to an effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mechanism of Karma: The Mahayana Presentation, Except for Gelug Prasangika ��� Session Three: The Aftermath of Karma] Reference

Here "ripening" means empowering the disciple to practise the yoga of the generation process and the completion process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama] Reference

Manner of Giving Rise to Karmic Results ripening exhausting maturing to give ripened result ripening exhausting not called "ripening".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mechanism of Karma: The Mahayana Presentation, Except for Gelug Prasangika ��� Session Three: The Aftermath of Karma] Reference

The so-called "ripening" of various organic fertilisers is effected, we now know, entirely through the agency of bacteria of this class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

Christmas trees may lose their needles because of a similar "ripening" process.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

This was no radical turn, he insisted, but a "ripening" of his understanding after 15 years in the region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antiwar.com Original] Reference

I think this is a growing consensus of the candidates of both parties, kind of ripening scientific consensus.    From Wordnik.com.  [CFR.org -] Reference

It seems that the tip writer has confused the "ripening" process with what the produce bag commercial is supposed to be doing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dollar Stretcher Featured Content] Reference

Yang Moo-jin, a scholar at Seoul's University of North Korean Studies, says the prospect of six party talks is "ripening," like a fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [VOA News: Top Stories] Reference

3 I employ a six-week "ripening" period for first drafts.    From Wordnik.com.  [June Tally] Reference

And all the stone fruits are ripening, meaning there’s an abundance of American fruit desserts.    From Wordnik.com.  [dimply plum cake | smitten kitchen] Reference

Without pollination there is no ripening of the seed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

Some people, it was a matter of all their ideas ripening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Left Starts to Rethink Reagan] Reference

Is sailing o'er the orchard where the ripening apples swing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference

This education has two purposes: self-ripening and leadership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Moore: Redefining Education: Cultivating the Soul] Reference

I was delighted to discover that the field tomatoes were ripening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liz Neumark: Tomato Thief] Reference

The ripening of the grapes, the fruit and acidity were all different.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Taste of Biodynamics] Reference

  It is overcast, the sky clotted with clouds like ripening bruises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post] Reference

A different ecology of microorganisms predominates while a heap is ripening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

Oddly shaped and ripening unevenly, I rescued them (from what, I don't know!).    From Wordnik.com.  [Liz Neumark: Tomato Thief] Reference

Josh thought about fruit ripening on the tree, which to him was the best way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ripe] Reference

I admit the ripening long red peppers distracted me, as did the aromatic basil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liz Neumark: Tomato Thief] Reference

"Curing" or "ripening" are terms used to describe what occurs once heating is over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

Currently, while cloture motions are ripening, the Senate can conduct other business.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The intent of both proposals is to make the Senate more like the Senate'] Reference

She taunted Edith with Jimmy's ripening: each day of his life is one less day for you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creatures: A Memoir] Reference

Count four trusses up and cut off the stem above the top one, to concentrate ripening.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the garden this week: Daffodil bulbs and tomatoes] Reference

The plan seemed to be ripening nicely when Naomi called to say she'd decided to try to talk to the Clinton camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dirt Patrol: Who Was 'Naomi'?] Reference

The avocados my husband, Achim, and I picked weeks earlier in the Marquesas Islands are all ripening simultaneously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bringing The World With Us--Virtually] Reference

They can remain on the vine an extra couple of days, ripening and gaining flavor, without becoming too mushy to ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tomato With A Body That Just Won't Quit] Reference