flute
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She teaches flute at five universities in Iowa as an adjunct professor and performs in three orchestras.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 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
And they see to it that, even without the benefit of a flute or 12 of champagne, the audience has a grand time too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
Perhaps others in the area have stumbled upon the mysterious flute man themselves, or can recall the smell of monomer from a nail salon at the Redlands Mall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Dad exhales, and Mom announces, “Then, that’s wonderful. Now you’ll be in flute class with Deb.”
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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But it also endeavored to sound different from previous fantasy media, replacing twee flutes with composer Ramin Djawadi’s deep strings, rhythmic drumming and a theme song that sought to inspire its audience to battle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 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
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
"We served Lambrini in our little flutes but we only really had regulars turn up," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
Ophie carried a tray of champagne flutes very carefully, holding the silver tray with both hands as the Carutherses’ various cousins each took a flute, exclaiming over having champagne.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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Its details are sharply chiseled and fluted, in the Streamline Moderne mode, and they turn what would otherwise be raw construction into lyrical architecture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 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
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
There was also a laptop computer, a litigation bag with the FBI insignia in yellow, and a box of maple sugar candies—acorns, wee pilgrims, in fluted paper cups.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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The asteroid that brought that cacophony to a cataclysmic end made room for the expansion of fluting birds.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 24, 2022
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
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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