How to Use bitter almond in a Sentence

bitter almond

noun

• The jar of bitter almonds is still there, too, on a shelf in my kitchen.
  — Angelica Calabrese, Longreads, 7 July 2026
• Just a few bitter almonds per kilo of sweet ones does the trick and doesn’t kill anyone.
  — Angelica Calabrese, Longreads, 7 July 2026
• Benzaldehyde isn’t unique to bitter almonds, though.
  — Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Apr. 2026
• If the flowers of sweet almond trees are pollinated with pollen from their bitter almond cousins, the resulting nuts are likely to be poisonous.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 14 Mar. 2026
• Pure almond extract is a concentrated flavoring made from bitter almonds, alcohol, and water.
  — Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Apr. 2026
• Celebrations were in full swing as the cloud descended on the metropolis in a thick, deadly fog that, owing to the presence of hydrogen cyanide, smelled of bitter almonds.
  — Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 23 May 2026
• Even today, almond extract, used in baking and as an ingredient of marzipan, is made from oil of bitter almonds whose toxicity has been neutralized.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 14 Mar. 2026
• There are names for the different varieties of almond—the bitter almond, the almond of Carovigno, of Barletta, of Ceglie Messapica, the hard almond, the fragile almond, the oval almond.
  — Angelica Calabrese, Longreads, 7 July 2026