1.   But we were the ones ripe for the picking.

2.   Green tomatoes are not eaten in the spring but in the fall, when the ripe ones are waning.

3.   Most still were red, so you had to search for the ripe ones.

4.   Morissette marshals a phalanx of phrases, each one ripe with implication, about a possible statutory rape and its aftermath.

5.   Or buy fresh avocados every few days, so you will always have a ripe one on hand.

6.   Ripe ones will sound hollow.

7.   Yellow leaves are too tough for eating, and ripe ones are especially rank.