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
Mr. Prieto’s ballad “Gently Trapped” highlights the transparent beauty and elegant phrasing of his flute playing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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
"We got a lot of champagne and some flute glasses from my boss at work, which were nice, but we have a lot of that so it will most likely get regifted," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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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Mr. Ehrlich has recorded them in a variety of settings featuring saxophones, clarinets and flutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
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
There were indeed two flutes of champagne at our white-tableclothed table.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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It’s fluted in places, like a colossal, Space Age column.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
It's a small, intimate space, with fluted vaults and brick-lined walls that echo the Art Deco architecture of the former power station.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
“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
Dede held up the dainty oil lamp, its pale rose chimney fluted like the petals of a flower.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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International Paper customers choose from a fluting guide that extends from A-flute at the thickest to so-called microflutes like E and F.
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
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
Under the cacophony of foreign tongues, he heard queer music playing from somewhere up ahead, a thin high fluting accompanied by drums.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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