Example sentences for: flutes

How can you use “flutes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the southern regions where bamboo grows, cottage industries turn out bamboo tea boxes, fans, flutes, chopsticks, walking sticks, and furniture.

  • According to Richard F. Fisher, a forest scientist at Texas A&M University, a growing demand for flutes, clarinets, and oboes made of rare tropical wood, including the endangered M'Pingo, grenadilla, and rosewood, is wreaking havoc on the African and South American tropics.

  • Among the instruments in the orchestra are flutes, zithers, and a giant banjo with a hollow bottom.

  • To the right is the Kaguraden, a hall where ceremonial dances are performed to honor the gods — and where, for a modest fee, couples can have Shinto wedding ceremonies performed, complete with flutes and drums and shrine maidens to attend them.

  • In one, the teen-age Stevens writes a dead-on Stevensian description of a motley village band--"the piping of flamboyant flutes, the wriggling of shrieking fifes with rasping dagger-voices, the sighing of bass-viols, drums that beat and rattle, the crescendo of cracked trombones."


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