Example sentences for: almond

How can you use “almond” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In an op-ed piece Monday in the conservative tabloid Daily Mail , Oxford University historian Mark Almond said the arrest reeks of hypocrisy and will "not send shivers down the spines of other dictators.

  • In among the groves of olive, almond, and fig trees, the stones have been gathered up from time immemorial to build the smaller, but equally sturdy, corbelled trulli that crop up like so many mushroom clusters dotting the countryside.

  • But the golden glow of the temples’ Doric columns and the idyllic setting amid acadia and almond trees on a precipice overlooking the Mediterranean are enough to encourage you to worship a whole pantheon of Greek gods.

  • The town has an enviable collection of Manueline buildings and attracts hordes of visitors during the spring to see flowering almond blossoms in the local orchards.

  • When his women unexpectedly wake up, like Galatea in his "Pygmalion" series or the spurned lover emerging from the almond tree in (1881-82, Merseyside), it's often disconcerting, and the men look as though they should have let sleeping maidens lie.


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