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flute

[floot] / flut /






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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

“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

“I don’t need them anymore,” I say, and pick up the flute again.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

Uruguay: “Tyrants: Tremble!/We shall cry out ‘Liberty’ in battle!” — a boast backed by flutes and violins that make it sound like a Rossini overture.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 25, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

Their songs weave in Irish lilting, set against a lively mix of drums, fiddles, flutes, harps, banjos, cello and concertina - skills honed over years of playing house parties, pub céilís and traditional festivals.

From BBC May 16, 2026

"We served Lambrini in our little flutes but we only really had regulars turn up," she said.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2025

Old men blew colored smoke through long painted flutes, etching the air with soundless music.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

And there were, of course, the signature grandfather clocks that made Howard Miller famous, both traditional designs of fluted hardwood and contemporary deconstructions with visible gears.

From Salon Dec. 2, 2025

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

She got up irritably and walked away, toward the swimming pool pavilion, an open structure supported by three fluted pillars.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

Both children and adults are thought to have participated in finger fluting, and similarly, Bennett said that the Quesang prints should also be considered art.

From Scientific American Sep. 21, 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

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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