is fluting
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present progressiveof flute (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
flutenouna musical wind instrument consisting of a tube with a series of fingerholes or keys, in which the wind is directed against a sharp edge, either directly, as in the modern transverse flute, or through a flue, as in the recorder.
Example Sentences
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Open it at any point and there the author is, fluting a different tune but charming the same old snake.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But above the tree-tops, rising, hovering, sinking, the woodlark is fluting, tender and low.
From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Charles Kingsley
I wonder who is fluting under that tree there, so late.
From The Bride of Fort Edward by Delia Bacon
He suddenly drops his voice to a shuddering whisper, and the next moment is fluting like a blackbird.
From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Edmund Gosse
But above the tree-tops, rising, hovering, sinking, the woodlark is fluting tender and low.
From Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife by Fanny E. Kingsley