How to Use ferment in a Sentence

ferment

1 of 2 verb

• Yeast ferments the sugar in the juice.
• The wine ferments in oak barrels.
• Red wine is fermented with the skins and seeds of the grapes.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2023
• To make up for some of the lost wine, why not ferment some pears?
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• My decision to ferment just the oats and nuts was a good one.
  — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 8 Oct. 2022
• The dough, made with flour from Italy, is fermented for forty-eight hours.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2023
• This means white wine grapes are left to ferment with their skins, similar to the way red wine is made.
  — Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2020
• After drying for a few weeks for up to six months, the grapes are dried and fermented.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 29 Dec. 2023
• The pulpy white beans are stacked under plantain leaves to ferment for a week before they are dried in the sun.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Allow this mixture to ferment for up to five days until the seeds sink to the bottom.
  — oregonlive, 4 Oct. 2021
• Scrape down the sides of the bowl, cover, and leave to ferment at room temperature for 1 hour.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
• The grapes are pressed and sealed in containers to ferment, just like any other wine.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 June 2022
• Alaskan wineries ferment such fruits as the salmonberry.
  — Elin McCoy, Bloomberg.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• The slushee-style Sour Ale is fermented with strong notes of mango and pink guava.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 17 Feb. 2020
• Fruits are added about three-fourths of the way into the aging process, giving sugars three to six months to ferment.
  — Claire Porter, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2021
• From Portugal, the Aphros Phaunus, made of the loureiro grape, was fermented in amphorae.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 7 May 2020
• The yeast in these foods can ferment in a pet’s warm stomach and produce toxic levels of ethanol.
  — Leticia Fanucchi, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
• The yeast in these foods can ferment in a pet's warm stomach and produce toxic levels of ethanol.
  — Leticia Fanucchi, CBS News, 17 Dec. 2022
• The raw material changed and the winemakers had to adapt on how to handle that fruit and how to ferment it.
  — Adam Morganstern, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• For a jalapeño schmear, the team partially ferments jalapeños, achieving just the right balance of heat, sweetness, and crunch.
  — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023
• The restaurant's kimchi takes a month to ferment, so the first December batch is ready to harvest this week.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 11 Jan. 2022
• These don’t have as much sugar to ferment, so more of these agaves are needed to produce a liter of mezcal.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2022
• Traditionally, the juice and pulp of the stone fruit had been fermented into a tart and tangy beer.
  — Brad Japhe, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• The grapes were not fermented in Iran, but the Iranian government does not want to be duped.
  — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
• The pina, or heart, is crushed and steamed to extract its sweet juices, which are fermented and then double-distilled.
  — Eric Velasco, al, 12 May 2020
• Wild beers and some sours utilize unpredictable yeast that takes longer to ferment.
  — Claire Porter, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2021
• My mother-in-law loves bringing us to a stall that does fermented tofu—grilled with all sorts of sauces from spicy to sweet.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Nov. 2023
• After the juice is drained from the skins, a winemaker can ferment the wine all the way to dryness, or not, but the color has nothing to do with that.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 June 2021
• This is mixed with local glutinous rice that is boiled and air dried, and kept to ferment in earthen vessels.
  — Joanna Lobo, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Feb. 2021
• And, of course, sugar provides food for the yeast to ferment into alcohol.
  — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2021

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ferment

2 of 2 noun

• The city was in a state of ferment after the election.
• Due to the four-day ferment, once they're gone, they're erased from the blackboard.
  — Joe Ray, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023
• That is yeast in the air that allows your bread to ferment, rise and fall.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2020
• And the truth is, at that time at least, during my own time of ferment, things were more open.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2021
• Empty days of blinding white heat gave way to nights of blood and ferment.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Make the lacto-ferment brine: In a small saucepan over low heat, combine water and salt.
  — Ian Knauer, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
• This is then mixed with water and left to ferment, sometimes as long as two weeks.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
• The bread crafted at Hewn ferments for 20 hours, and for four of those hours it is turned every 30 minutes.
  — Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2019
• This needs to be mixed with water and yeast, and then left to ferment, which can lead to some timing issues.
  — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 1 Sep. 2021
• Let the kosho ferment in the refrigerator for five to ten days.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2020
• The leaves are formed into solid cakes that ferment for months, and sometimes years.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
• The 10 smart Programs are roast, stew, bake, steam, slow cook, sear/sauté, rice, yogurt, ferment and warm.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 11 Nov. 2021
• Human ideas about hell were still in ferment as the Bible was being written.
  — al, 16 Apr. 2022
• Off in the corners, though, there’s a lot of intellectual ferment on the right.
  — David Brooks, Star Tribune, 10 Aug. 2020
• Instead of water, the flour for these breads is mixed with yogurt, then left outside for a whole day to ferment.
  — New York Times, 29 Oct. 2019
• Their brioche dough is takes a full 24 hours to ferment and is made with fresh yeast, butter, and real vanilla bean.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2021
• Mercier Orchards, about a 90-minute drive from Atlanta, was one of the first farms in the state to grow, press, ferment, and bottle its own hard cider and wine.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023
• The hearts, which each produce about one bottle, are then mashed and left to ferment for several more days.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2020
• Grapes are getting ripe, crews are picking them off the vines, and all that juice inside the tanks is beginning to ferment.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Aug. 2022
• But that micro-ferment can take a winemaker a week or more to complete.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 23 Sep. 2020
• Set the cabbage on a surface that doesn’t receive direct sunlight and leave it alone to ferment.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 4 Mar. 2020
• Then, the cherries’ flesh is removed, and the remaining seeds — known widely as beans — go to a cistern to ferment.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2022
• The road ahead is still a long one, though, as can be seen from the manifest ferment in the industrial sector.
  — Fabio Moioli, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• The red is a co-ferment of traditional cider apples with Pinot Noir grape skins from Kristof Farms.
  — oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2023
• Its tale of rebellion chimed with the political ferment of the time, and not only in Lebanon.
  — John Bleasdale, Variety, 6 Dec. 2022
• Sour and garlicky, it's usually made from pork, sticky rice and garlic, then hung up to ferment and dry.
  — Kate Springer, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022
• There were hints of ferment in the walkouts of essential workers and the record turnout at protests following the murder of George Floyd.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• Trump may be gone, but the populist ferment across the political spectrum that helped drive his rise is still with us.
  — James Pogue, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021
• The attack on the Capitol was a predictable apotheosis of a months-long ferment.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2021
• And that effort is spread over three days of patient waiting as the dough slowly ferments and raises.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 13 May 2020

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