flute
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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
“H.R. Pufnstuf,” a combination of live-action and puppetry that Sid once referred to as “our first baby,” follows the adventures of a young boy, a talking flute and a 6-foot-tall dragon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
This year, the Saoradh national committee said it would be accompanied by one flute band and 500 participants and supporters.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026
I throw my flute onto the bed, crush my hands against my ears.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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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
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
Wilson regarded it as one of his best, and with its striking instrumental palette of harpsichord and flutes, it’s easy to agree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
He hears the brass bands, too, and the living room gleams bright with the showy flutes and trumpets and trombones.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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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
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
W.E. wasn’t a fluted antique cup in Mrs. Nevins’s china cupboard.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
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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
Often, her fluting or tapering forms travel through one another from inside to outside and back again.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 18, 2018
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
How I sometimes lost the sense of her words in the sweet fluting of her voice.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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