What is "overripe"

Usage examples of "overripe".

There was a louder sound, what you might hear if you drop an overripe casaba melon onto a tile floor.

Even had the contents of the pots, a loose mixture of what seemed to be overripe fruit and rotted grain, not been so vile, Hosta would starve before they fed so.

It smelled like overripe tangerines, but it was ninety-percent dry and the vending-machine took most of the wind.

On lifting the lid of the desk a faint fragrance escaped--the fragrance of new cedarwood pencils or of a bottle of gum or of an overripe apple which might have been left there and forgotten.

Rummaging in the food-pouches, they found little more than bunya nuts, with a few withered lillypilly berries, overripe apple-berries, and crumbled mushrooms.

The overripe scent is unmistakable, though the man in my apartment is shorter and stockier than Cleo Rio's boyfriend.

When she had to enter a sled's cargo hold to get the last few cartons, she was aware of an overripe aroma exuding from the main compartment of the sled and was just as glad that there was a fierce supply of fresh air at her back.

It was harder to be a femme fatale if you were built like an overripe pear-a size six on top and size fourteen on the bottom.

Straight ahead, through the front window, was the vast student union parking lot, with cars as thickly clustered as fruitflies on an overripe mango.

It was overripe and she was going to throw it in her garbage collector.

He scooped up the overripe fruit and swallowed it down, grimacing at the slightly rancid taste.

If that was repeated in public they'd say old Iron Fist's overripe, that it's time for him to put down his sword, shave his head, and begin to say prayers to Buddha for the souls of the men he's sent into the Void.

She tossed Old Ned's head, which was beginning to resemble a cross between an overripe cantaloupe and a deflated basketball, into a handy dumpster.

The market was to their south now: they were above the point where the vegetables and shellfish and overripe fruit petered out.

By the time you've located the single recessive gene you want, in one of the fifty million sperm you examined, the ovum may be overripe.