How do you use the word "ferment" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "ferment": Yeast makes beer ferment. The whole town was in a ferment.

Ferment Meaning

/fəˈmɛnt/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.

verbTo stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.

Sentence Examples

Yeast makes beer ferment.

The whole town was in a ferment.

As the food particles ferment, they produce methane.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

work unrest agitation

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

If you leave fruit juice out too long, it will begin to ____ into alcohol.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Yeast is used to ____ the sugars in grapes, turning them into alcohol during the winemaking process.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English ferment, from Middle French ferment, from Latin fermentāre (“to leaven, ferment”), from fermentum (“substance causing fermentation”), possibly from contraction of *fervimentum, from fervēre. See also fervent.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The cleanup job would turn out to be possibly second only to body-recovery duty in terms of being a job that nobody wanted to get assigned to. Imagine, for a moment, a thick soup of oil, paper, ink, clothing, raw meat and other fresh provisions, and worse, that had all been left to collect together in semi-warm water, all enclosed in a large metal container that had then been subjected to heating by first fire and then repeated warm Hawaiian days, and then left to ferment for over a month, and then with most of the water drained away and all the remaining solid and semi-liquid mass collecting together in pools and heaps across multiple decks, still in a relatively-enclosed environment." — 2020 November 18, Drachinifel, 6:21 from the start, in The Salvage of Pearl Harbor Pt 2 - Up She Rises!, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2022:

"Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood." — 1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:

"Pleas'd have I wander'd thro' your rough domain; / Trod the pure virgin-ſnows, myſelf as pure; / Heard the winds roar, and the big torrent burſt; / Or ſeen the deep fermenting tempeſt brew'd, / In the grim evening ſky." — a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 165, lines 10–14:

"Subdue and cool the ferment of desire." — a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation:

"Proponents of the broken windows theory assume that [disorder] means a neighborhood has lost control and doesn't care about crime. But surely there are other plausible meanings. It could signal artistic ferment, a youth hangout, rebellion, or an alternative lifestyle." — 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order:

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