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flute

[floot] / flut /






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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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

In Mozart’s opera, Tamino, a prince in a fairyland of mystic temples and mystifying gods, relies on his supernatural flute that turn sorrow into joy to get him out of jams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Another cut overseen by Robertson for “Beautiful Noise,” this one with Dr. John on organ and Jerome Richardson on flute.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

The flute was invented by Athena, but she threw it away because in order to play it she had to puff out her cheeks and disfigure her face.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

What the author gets at in every example, from Kokopelli petroglyphs to fragile jade flutes and the lush sets and experimental sounds of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, is a common longing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

As passengers sipped flutes of Champagne for hours on the triple-decker yacht, they played games of “Guess Who?” customized with the faces of AI legends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 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

Kelli picked up a music stand and swiped a row of clarinets and flutes.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

It's a small, intimate space, with fluted vaults and brick-lined walls that echo the Art Deco architecture of the former power station.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

Halls and galleries drifted past: graceful buttresses, delicate arches, fluted columns, terraces and bowers.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Designs by architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe can be seen today in some of the Capitol building’s most elaborate carvings, such as the fluting on interior columns to resemble cornstalks.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021

In detailing the enormity of the Olympieion’s scale, Diodorus wrote that the fluting of the outer columns was big enough for a man to stand inside.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2020

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

The heat was almost gone out of the radiators: the cold iron fluting stem signal and admonition for sleeping, the little death, the renewal.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner




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