fluting

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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