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[floot] / flut /






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The program also includes the New York premiere of Billy Childs’s “A More Perfect Union,” with the brothers Demarre and Anthony McGill on flute and clarinet.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 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

“I think it’s tragic,” said John Ingalls, 82, a flute maker who rented one of the dwellings before the city booted him from the land it now owns.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

But as if rescued by a magic flute, an instant of fear turned to joy, glittery gold graffiti filling the Chandler and celebrating Conlon.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

The witch’s eyes and head bobbed side to side, following the light emanating from the ear pendant much like a cobra follows the movement of a charmer’s flute.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

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

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

Wilson regarded it as one of his best, and with its striking instrumental palette of harpsichord and flutes, it’s easy to agree.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2025

Then Babe would wade along in the shallow part while we played our flutes and sang.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

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

The tiara has single, rose-cut and brilliant-cut diamonds and three fluted turquoise plumes set with diamond stems.

From BBC Jun. 5, 2025

I tried to breathe, stared up at the vaulted ceiling, the fluted grooves in the richly stained molding, hoping nobody would speak to me more—make me speak.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

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

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

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

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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