fluting
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Bennett compared the prints to finger flutings — a kind of prehistoric art made by people running their fingers over soft surfaces on cave walls.
From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2021
The language becomes more sober; the rhymes, no longer two-syllable flutings, become heavier.
From Slate • Nov. 29, 2011
All sounds to silver rhythm ran: Came flutings as from piping Pan In purpled hills of Arcady!
From Ioläus The man that was a ghost by Mackereth, James Allan
The Doric flutings were of irregular number—the Venetian mouldings were unchangeable.
From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by Ruskin, John
The elemental lines of oxygen are not indeed seen in stellar spectra, but that the element is present is shown by the flutings of titanium oxide which distinguish stars like Antares.
From Are the Planets Inhabited? by Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter)
Vocabulary lists containing fluting
