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flute

[floot] / flut /






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His flute playing remains marvelously transparent and now projects an increasing feeling of fullness.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

One woman whips out a flute to play a song from KPop Demon Hunters.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

By the end, however, Mbappé had unleashed a goofy flute celebration suggested by James Corden and held the sport in his palm once more.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

But as if rescued by a magic flute, an instant of fear turned to joy, glittery gold graffiti filling the Chandler and celebrating Conlon.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

The notes of the flute flitted around the tavern like a moth.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Back in the members’ club, surrounded by budding Renaissance men clinking Champagne flutes, Peter Mignacca announced that he was here for practical tips.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 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 was a woodwind virtuoso, Pedro Eustache, making wild and beautiful sounds in an isolated booth with his arsenal of flutes — and out on the stage there was a real, live theremin.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 19, 2025

"We served Lambrini in our little flutes but we only really had regulars turn up," she said.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2025

They started setting up and I saw that they had six violins, two clarinets, a marching snare, Marjorie on a portable keyboard, and two flutes.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers

On a recent evening, from a seat at the restaurant’s fluted blonde-wood bar, I watched as a blaze of honeyed light poured through a wall of windows overlooking sloping vineyards and the Appalachian foothills.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 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

But a couple of special items caught my eye at the prepping station — specifically, rows of elegantly fluted scallop shells.

From Salon Nov. 1, 2025

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

I skipped down through image after image about watermelon lights and turtle-green palms and shells fluted like bits of Greek architecture.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

For Honoré, personally, parietal art includes paintings and engravings made on rock, but would exclude markings like finger fluting or the Quesang prints, and some other archaeologists hold the same view.

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

There was not a piece of armour proofed in Europe but what Unde Dap had a theory about it He was furious with the new Gothic style, with its ridges and scallop-patterns and fluting.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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