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
His flute playing remains marvelously transparent and projects an increasing feeling of fullness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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
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
She explains that she teaches trombone, Ms. Min flute, Mr. Tingle trumpet, and Mrs. Spitz directs the choir.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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They debated machine consciousness at 40,000 feet over flutes of champagne.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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
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
Then, out of Ts’ai Yen’s tent, which was apart from the others, the barbarians heard a woman’s voice singing, as if to her babies, a song so high and clear, it matched the flutes.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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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
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
“Big, big, big, big, big,” said Cassiopeia, counting the row of massive fluted columns that lined the colonnade.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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A couple of employees are in the music business, which helps explain the aural entertainment; dinner tastes better with Herbie Mann fluting through “Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022
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
I heard all the words and instruments, complete with stereo highs and bass lows to “My Girl,” fluting out of his long but happy face.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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