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There was still time for Root and Archer to flay the weary Australia attack in 44 balls of mayhem before the close.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025

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

But coronavirus fears continue to flay stocks that are heavily exposed to China or sell to Australia’s debt-laden consumers.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2020

A sizable slice of the joy derived from “Pose” is in watching Jackson flay her challengers with the crisp delivery and presence perfected by the likes of Grace Jones.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2018

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

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

With surgical precision and raucous glee, Row flays his characters and exposes their smugness.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023

Insigne then flays an overly ambitious pass out for a goal kick and starts apologising to all and sundry.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2021

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

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

Beware the January month, beware Those hurtful days, that keenly-piercing air Which flays the herds; when icicles are cast O'er frozen earth, and sheathe the nipping blast.

From Mosaics of Grecian History by Marcius Willson

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett flayed some wayward India bowling at a rate of more than five an over in their stand of 166, taking a huge chunk out of the tourists' 358.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2025

Its common name is weeping fig, and in these flayed skins the lamentation resonates.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2024

“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

His breathing was labored; he mumbled and twice flayed his arms as if to shake some invisible attackers off.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

He drove his first delivery for four before he set about flaying India's bowling to all corners of this ground in an epic partnership of 303 with Harry Brook.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025

Barrie: Working with Craig on “Chernobyl,” we had created different stages of radiation burns from what looked like a sunburn to very extensive burns with skin flaying off the body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2023

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