fluting

Example Sentences

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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

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

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