flute
Example Sentences
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A flute of champagne is pressed on me by an invisible hand, probably from the store’s mezzanine café.
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In band he miscounted the rests and came in at the wrong time, the only trumpet playing in a measure that was supposed to be all flutes.
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Nash is blowing on a song flute while Oliver bangs on a drum.
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She could make her voice go low and deep and strong like a tuba, or hop, hop, hop quick and light like a flute.
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Occasionally a herd of hippocamps would come and swim alongside the boats, or a mermaid would approach a fisherman, playing a tune on a flute made from a razor clam.
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