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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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

By the end, however, Mbappé had unleashed a goofy flute celebration suggested by James Corden and held the sport in his palm once more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

One man played along on a little twinkling flute called a fife.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis

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

Back in the members’ club, surrounded by budding Renaissance men clinking Champagne flutes, Peter Mignacca announced that he was here for practical tips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 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

Then, out of Ts’ai Yen’s tent, which was apart from the others, the barbarians heard a woman’s voice singing, as if to her babies, a song so high and clear, it matched the flutes.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

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

I stared at the glass, seeing how the light shone through, throwing a transparent, precisely fluted shadow against the dark grain of the table, and there on the bottom of the glass lay an eye.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

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

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

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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