flute
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Near Darkness lurks a table laden with sugar-crusted fruit and an elaborately stemmed flute holding what looks like champagne.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
But the tracks are enriched with synthesizers, violin, flute, trumpet and clarinet — all five members are multi-instrumentalists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
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
It’s Saturday morning, and already Dad has asked twice if I’m going to practice my flute today, and Mom has asked me three times if I want to get together with anyone.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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As Sunday night turned into Monday morning, and the strains of fiddles and flutes drifted through the city streets, people hailed the success of Belfast's first ever All-Ireland Fleadh.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 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
"We served Lambrini in our little flutes but we only really had regulars turn up," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
While helping to clean up the champagne flutes and leftover cake, Miranda brings up the flirtatious spark she noticed between Carrie and Duncan, which Carrie resents.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 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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Inside, the eye immediately travels upward, led by rows of slightly sloping, fluted, twisting columns that seem to soar to the heavens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
He had long white lashes and fluted ears, and his nose quivered in the center of his face.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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That fluting is what gives a cardboard box its protective quality; without its flutes, corrugate wouldn’t be corrugate at all — it would just be containerboard.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 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
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
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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