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flute

[floot] / flut /






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Near Darkness lurks a table laden with sugar-crusted fruit and an elaborately stemmed flute holding what looks like champagne.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

"We got a lot of champagne and some flute glasses from my boss at work, which were nice, but we have a lot of that so it will most likely get regifted," she says.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

“I think it’s tragic,” said John Ingalls, 82, a flute maker who rented one of the dwellings before the city booted him from the land it now owns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

In Mozart’s opera, Tamino, a prince in a fairyland of mystic temples and mystifying gods, relies on his supernatural flute that turn sorrow into joy to get him out of jams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

You follow the sound of a flute into a hidden corner, the hypnotic melody beckoning you closer.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

They debated machine consciousness at 40,000 feet over flutes of champagne.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Mr. Ehrlich has recorded them in a variety of settings featuring saxophones, clarinets and flutes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Champagne flutes clinked as the president and the King raised toasts to one another, celebrating the deep-rooted ties and shared history between the countries.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

Her flutes — from piccolo to bass and all in between — and friends became magic makers in this numinous physical and musical landscape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

There were indeed two flutes of champagne at our white-tableclothed table.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

It’s fluted in places, like a colossal, Space Age column.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

It's a small, intimate space, with fluted vaults and brick-lined walls that echo the Art Deco architecture of the former power station.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Its details are sharply chiseled and fluted, in the Streamline Moderne mode, and they turn what would otherwise be raw construction into lyrical architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Custom kitchens designed by Christopher Peacock are encased in wood and fluted glass cabinetry with 2-inch-thick Calacatta marble on the kitchen islands.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026

The spectacularly fluted ice pinnacles of Thamserku and Kusum Kangru pierced the sky more than two vertical miles above.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

That fluting is what gives a cardboard box its protective quality; without its flutes, corrugate wouldn’t be corrugate at all — it would just be containerboard.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2022

The asteroid that brought that cacophony to a cataclysmic end made room for the expansion of fluting birds.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 24, 2022

Zegler, whose petite frame and childlike expressions give Maria an extra air of innocence, possesses a fluting soprano that is captivating and of a piece with her character’s naivete.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021

Mirianashvili opted for a standard drinking glass, the kind with fluting at the base and a wide band near the rim.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019

A paleo-Indian innovation, this type of fluting exists only in the Americas.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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