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flute

[floot] / flut /






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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

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

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

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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