flute
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I grew up as a classical flute player but I was also into punk fashion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
One woman whips out a flute to play a song from KPop Demon Hunters.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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
The drum tumbled on, and the distracted flute wandered off.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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They debated machine consciousness at 40,000 feet over flutes of champagne.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
What the author gets at in every example, from Kokopelli petroglyphs to fragile jade flutes and the lush sets and experimental sounds of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, is a common longing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
"We served Lambrini in our little flutes but we only really had regulars turn up," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
On Wednesday afternoon, it was a pleasant 77 degrees, with drums, flutes and cymbals being heard around the Manhattan Beach campus as band members practiced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
There were hundreds of people dressed in crimson and gold and emerald dancing to the music of flutes and pipes.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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“Classical Body,” which pairs Attic vases and flasks with a series of fluted Grecian gowns elevated above—super-model goddesses in pale gold—sets the aspirational yet unforgiving female physical ideal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 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
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
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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
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
Often, her fluting or tapering forms travel through one another from inside to outside and back again.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 18, 2018
There was not a piece of armour proofed in Europe but what Unde Dap had a theory about it He was furious with the new Gothic style, with its ridges and scallop-patterns and fluting.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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