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From then on, he curbed his aggressive instincts to support Gill, but could not resist one straight flay off Bashir for six.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025

Then they flay it—not filet, flay—meaning remove the skin.

From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2023

This isn’t to criticize the family, but to flay CNN, which should have reported the factual context of the household’s inflation experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2021

Having talked his way into an exclusive interview with billionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Wilder proceeded to flay him:

From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2021

It was a delicate process because I didn't want to flay the skin off my fingers.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

He similarly flays the response to the recent documentary about Michael Jackson and riskily spotlights a ten-year-old kid sitting in the front row.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 13, 2019

Using the surgical kit of New Journalism, Wolfe flays Darwin and Chomsky as imperious, self-aggrandizing snobs, each humiliated by a lower-class “clueless outsider who crashes the party of the big thinkers.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2016

Ten off three balls as Amla flays through point, gets a bit of a hip down to the fine leg boundary and then a back foot punch for two.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2016

In the harum-scarum batting has been beautiful strokeplay, the off-drives of Bell and the clips through leg of Root, the innovation and aggression of Warner and the counter-attacking flays of Moeen Ali.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2015

He leaves us no illusions, and not only strips his subject, but flays it and shows the raw muscles beneath the skin.

From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

There were shades of Shahid Afridi and Saeed Anwar in the flamboyant nature of the way Razaullah flayed England to all parts.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

The firm was flayed in 2018 by federal Judge Royce C. Lamberth of Washington, D.C., for engaging in what he labeled a “high-tech shakedown ... smacking of extortion.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

One of his recurring subjects was meat, from flayed rabbits to rayfish, with odorous side effects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

“It’s very human to not want to have yourself sort of flayed open for the world to see.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2024

The largest banners were behind the dais, where the direwolf of Winterfell and the flayed man of the Dreadfort hung back of the bride and groom.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Smoking in a raffish suit like a film noir baddie with a shock of red hair ready to torch the world, Noble’s Richard employs a dusky, ironic voice to flaying effect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

Then came Harry Brook's brain fade when set on 31 - flaying a wild drive at pink-ball maestro Mitchell Starc to second slip in the twilight.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025

Get it wrong, admit the merest uncertainty, alter your story one iota, and in a few months’ time a smooth-talking lawyer will be flaying you to ribbons in front of an FA disciplinary panel.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2021

By combining rapid-fire wordplay, historical japery, the subversion of middle-class mores and the flaying of upper-class twits, Monty Python “took silliness to renaissance levels,” Thompson said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2020

Gradually, in the small hours of the morning, the wind stopped flaying them and began to taper off.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong