fluting

Example Sentences

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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

For Honoré, personally, parietal art includes paintings and engravings made on rock, but would exclude markings like finger fluting or the Quesang prints, and some other archaeologists hold the same view.

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

Its horns were a more refined version of what they’d been, fluting out to tight spirals, and the eyes that filled the empty sockets were large and shining.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor