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[floot] / flut /






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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

But the tracks are enriched with synthesizers, violin, flute, trumpet and clarinet — all five members are multi-instrumentalists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

One woman whips out a flute to play a song from KPop Demon Hunters.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Athena was not distinguished in that line, but she invented the flute although she never played upon it.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

They debated machine consciousness at 40,000 feet over flutes of champagne.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 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

There was a woodwind virtuoso, Pedro Eustache, making wild and beautiful sounds in an isolated booth with his arsenal of flutes — and out on the stage there was a real, live theremin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2025

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

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025

The musicians blow into their flutes with passion, their cheeks puffed out, their braids swinging.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

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

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

But a couple of special items caught my eye at the prepping station — specifically, rows of elegantly fluted scallop shells.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025

He eased his feet in, holding the fluted steel edge of the culvert with both hands.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

That fluting is what gives a cardboard box its protective quality; without its flutes, corrugate wouldn’t be corrugate at all — it would just be containerboard.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2022

Zegler, whose petite frame and childlike expressions give Maria an extra air of innocence, possesses a fluting soprano that is captivating and of a piece with her character’s naivete.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021

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

A paleo-Indian innovation, this type of fluting exists only in the Americas.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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