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flute

[floot] / flut /






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

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

But as if rescued by a magic flute, an instant of fear turned to joy, glittery gold graffiti filling the Chandler and celebrating Conlon.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

She teaches flute at five universities in Iowa as an adjunct professor and performs in three orchestras.

From The Wall Street Journal May 2, 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

When a note was for violin or ’cello or flute she would write the name of the instrument to show.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

But it also endeavored to sound different from previous fantasy media, replacing twee flutes with composer Ramin Djawadi’s deep strings, rhythmic drumming and a theme song that sought to inspire its audience to battle.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 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

Ophie carried a tray of champagne flutes very carefully, holding the silver tray with both hands as the Carutherses’ various cousins each took a flute, exclaiming over having champagne.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

“Classical Body,” which pairs Attic vases and flasks with a series of fluted Grecian gowns elevated above—super-model goddesses in pale gold—sets the aspirational yet unforgiving female physical ideal.

From The Wall Street Journal May 9, 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 has single, rose-cut and brilliant-cut diamonds and three fluted turquoise plumes set with diamond stems.

From BBC Jun. 5, 2025

I skipped down through image after image about watermelon lights and turtle-green palms and shells fluted like bits of Greek architecture.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

International Paper customers choose from a fluting guide that extends from A-flute at the thickest to so-called microflutes like E and F.

From New York Times Nov. 28, 2022

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

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

A paleo-Indian innovation, this type of fluting exists only in the Americas.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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