fluting

Example Sentences

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A couple of employees are in the music business, which helps explain the aural entertainment; dinner tastes better with Herbie Mann fluting through “Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022

The asteroid that brought that cacophony to a cataclysmic end made room for the expansion of fluting birds.

From Scientific American • Mar. 24, 2022

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

I heard all the words and instruments, complete with stereo highs and bass lows to “My Girl,” fluting out of his long but happy face.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia