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flute

[floot] / flut /






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"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

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

“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

Or if you ever were a young girl who wanted to pick the drums when it came time to choose an instrument for band, and were instead encouraged to play something like the flute.

From Salon Apr. 28, 2026

You follow the sound of a flute into a hidden corner, the hypnotic melody beckoning you closer.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

“Sunshower” praises the power of love and features a hearty rumba supporting piano, flutes and strings.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

Champagne flutes clinked as the president and the King raised toasts to one another, celebrating the deep-rooted ties and shared history between the countries.

From BBC Apr. 28, 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

Several boys took out their wooden quena quena flutes and began to play.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

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

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 features single, rose-cut and brilliant-cut diamonds and three fluted turquoise plumes set with diamond stems, according to Bonhams.

From BBC May 30, 2025

The chair had been pulled up to the oversized fireplace Carl had built, inside of which stood tall, fluted andirons.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

From Scientific American Mar. 24, 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

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

Immediately, there cascaded from the fluting organ confetti of skittering triplets as the vicar turned to lead the couple down the aisle and the six family members fell in behind.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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