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
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
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
The heat was almost gone out of the radiators: the cold iron fluting stem signal and admonition for sleeping, the little death, the renewal.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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