Sample Sentences for
ferment
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ferment as in:  political party in ferment

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    The political ferment produced new leadership.
    ferment = unrest (excited disagreement)
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    His frustration begins to ferment into anger.  (source)
    ferment = build or stir unrest
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    The thought of that little golden bottle had hovered on the edges of his imagination for some time; vague and unformulated plans that involved Ginny splitting up with Dean, and Ron somehow being happy to see her with a new boyfriend, had been fermenting in the depths of his brain, unacknowledged except during dreams or the twilight time between sleeping and waking.  (source)
    fermenting = building and stirring unrest
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ferment as in:  ferment grapes

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    The cider must ferment for several weeks before it’s ready to drink.
    ferment = break down chemically
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    It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down all around your canal-side dinner table.  (source)
    fermented = chemically changed (in this case, to add carbonation/bubbles)
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    When they had harvested a sizable heap they carried it down in two trips to the stream, where every woman had a shallow well for fermenting her cassava.  (source)
    fermenting = chemically changing by a living agent
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    They were held at a distance by the religious ferment around Paul's leadership.†  (source)
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    Some is fermented to become ethanol.  (source)
    fermented = chemically changed by a living agent
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    Otherwise there's only a half-empty bottle of ketchup, dark brown and fermenting.  (source)
    fermenting = chemically changing due to a living agent
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    It says that alcohol is a colorless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Many are armed, and a bad feeling ferments in the pit of my stomach.†  (source)
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    I made a study of the ancient and indispensable art of bread-making, consulting such authorities as offered, going back to the primitive days and first invention of the unleavened kind, when from the wildness of nuts and meats men first reached the mildness and refinement of this diet, and travelling gradually down in my studies through that accidental souring of the dough which, it is supposed, taught the leavening process, and through the various fermentations thereafter, till I came to "good, sweet, wholesome bread," the staff of life.†  (source)
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    It happens that Mr. Chadband has a pulpit habit of fixing some member of his congregation with his eye and fatly arguing his points with that particular person, who is understood to be expected to be moved to an occasional grunt, groan, gasp, or other audible expression of inward working, which expression of inward working, being echoed by some elderly lady in the next pew and so communicated like a game of forfeits through a circle of the more fermentable sinners present, serves the purpose of parliamentary cheering and gets Mr. Chadband's steam up.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    Bronzini looked on, sitting in when someone left but otherwise a kibitzer, unmeddlesome, content to savor the company and try the wine, sometimes good, sometimes overfermented, better used to spike a salad.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overfermented means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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    Before too long, the juice began to ferment.†  (source)
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    Unwrapping the coats revealed a large pot, the fermented cabbage and pork dumplings inside still steaming hot.  (source)
    fermented = chemically changed by a living agent
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