flute
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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
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
"We got a lot of champagne and some flute glasses from my boss at work, which were nice, but we have a lot of that so it will most likely get regifted," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
“I think it’s tragic,” said John Ingalls, 82, a flute maker who rented one of the dwellings before the city booted him from the land it now owns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 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
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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
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
So Cook and Mr. Henry divided the bottles among twenty champagne flutes, and poured a measure of a bottle of Coca-Cola for the household staff, since there was no champagne left.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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It’s fluted in places, like a colossal, Space Age column.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 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
And there were, of course, the signature grandfather clocks that made Howard Miller famous, both traditional designs of fluted hardwood and contemporary deconstructions with visible gears.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
There was also a laptop computer, a litigation bag with the FBI insignia in yellow, and a box of maple sugar candies—acorns, wee pilgrims, in fluted paper cups.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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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
The asteroid that brought that cacophony to a cataclysmic end made room for the expansion of fluting birds.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 24, 2022
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
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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