flute
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But the tracks are enriched with synthesizers, violin, flute, trumpet and clarinet — all five members are multi-instrumentalists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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
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
One man played along on a little twinkling flute called a fife.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
Mr. Ehrlich has recorded them in a variety of settings featuring saxophones, clarinets and flutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
As Sunday night turned into Monday morning, and the strains of fiddles and flutes drifted through the city streets, people hailed the success of Belfast's first ever All-Ireland Fleadh.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Uruguay: “Tyrants: Tremble!/We shall cry out ‘Liberty’ in battle!” — a boast backed by flutes and violins that make it sound like a Rossini overture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
“Sunshower” praises the power of love and features a hearty rumba supporting piano, flutes and strings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
There were hundreds of people dressed in crimson and gold and emerald dancing to the music of flutes and pipes.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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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 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 features single, rose-cut and brilliant-cut diamonds and three fluted turquoise plumes set with diamond stems, according to Bonhams.
From BBC ● May 30, 2025
He eased his feet in, holding the fluted steel edge of the culvert with both hands.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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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
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
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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