How to Use fluting in a Sentence
fluting
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These stones’ fluting is mainly found toward the tip of their points, per Haaretz.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2020
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Design features like wood fluting and neutral tones add a calmness to the space.
—Emma Reynolds, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
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It’s even easier than pie; there’s no tricky top crust or fancy fluting to fuss over.
—Beth Segal, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2021
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The round vents of the current model are retained and feature some interesting fluting around the perimeter.
—Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 19 July 2022
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Extra weight from a muzzle brake might help there, but if Mossberg skipped the fluting, that would certainly improve its handling as well.
—John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 6 Nov. 2020
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The asteroid that brought that cacophony to a cataclysmic end made room for the expansion of fluting birds.
—Amy Brady, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2022
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Read on to see how some of the country's top designers incorporate fluting in myriad ways.
—Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 28 Sep. 2022
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Other weight savings are achieved by use of a slender-contour, 20-inch barrel along with aggressive spiral fluting of the bolt and machined flats and recesses in the sides of the action, which is pillar-bedded to the stock.
—Mike Dickerson, Field & Stream, 18 Feb. 2021
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In addition, by altering the texture of the gold itself, the fluting concept that runs through all the styles in this collection offers a new interpretation of Jade Trau’s aesthetic.
—Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 18 May 2022
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Center stage are four Greek columns with tightly curled Ionic capitals and fluting defined by shifts in soft, exquisite colors.
—Roberta Smith, Holland Cotter, Will Heinrich and Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
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Black Oxide helps avoid corrosion and reduce friction between the bit and the material being drilled, and also assists in moving cut material up through the bit’s fluting.
—Popular Science, 1 Mar. 2021
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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.
—Nicoletta Lanese, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2021
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Also having a revival: similarly linear fluting, a descendant of the vertical grooves that characterized columns in the better homes and gardens of ancient Rome.
—Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
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For Honoré, personally, parietal art includes paintings and engravings made on rock, but would exclude markings like finger fluting or the Quesang prints, and some other archaeologists hold the same view.
—Nicoletta Lanese, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2021
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Another abstract interpretation: Byron Risdon's inviting patio, where chair backs and tabletop vases have a scallop pattern that loosely echo the shape of fluting.
—Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 28 Sep. 2022
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Designs by architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe can be seen today in some of the Capitol building’s most elaborate carvings, such as the fluting on interior columns to resemble cornstalks.
—Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
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New seats feature Alcantara elements, fluting and contrast stitching.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 25 May 2021
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