flute
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I grew up as a classical flute player but I was also into punk fashion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
The flute is silver, heavy in my hands.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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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
As passengers sipped flutes of Champagne for hours on the triple-decker yacht, they played games of “Guess Who?” customized with the faces of AI legends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
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
People flood into the post office, carrying giant drums and flutes and tubas, blasting a somewhat off-key rendition of that Bruno Mars song “Marry You.”
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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Inside, the eye immediately travels upward, led by rows of slightly sloping, fluted, twisting columns that seem to soar to the heavens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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 building’s fluted Corinthian columns are right at home in neoclassical Washington, but they aren’t a match with the rest of the White House, with its simpler, smooth columns and Ionic capitals.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2025
The tiara has single, rose-cut and brilliant-cut diamonds and three fluted turquoise plumes set with diamond stems.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2025
The glossy pages of succeeding months blossom around it: landscapes of fluted mountains for 1964; a curious collection of Irish setters and pugs in 1969; twelve varieties of jasmine for each month of 1973.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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Press one stack of the rectangles into each well of the muffin pan, folding or fluting the edges slightly to make an attractive cup.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2023
Both children and adults are thought to have participated in finger fluting, and similarly, Bennett said that the Quesang prints should also be considered art.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 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
Grant based her character on her own mother and aunt, ladies with high, fluting voices and a “wonderful, ridiculous part to them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2017
Immediately, there cascaded from the fluting organ confetti of skittering triplets as the vicar turned to lead the couple down the aisle and the six family members fell in behind.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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