flay

With Green stepping back to flay an expected short ball, he was bluffed by a Carse yorker that splattered the stumps.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 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

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

From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2021

Stokes tried to flay the quick through point from the crease but it bounced a tad more than he thought, getting a tiny edge through to Paine.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2019

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

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

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

Frank, who scripted the crime movies Dead Again, Get Shorty and Out of Sight, flays the Block novel of Scudder’s support group: his AA sponsor Jim Faber, the barkeep Mick Ballou.

From Time ● Sep. 18, 2014

His scorn blisters and scalds, his sarcasm flays; but then outside nature is constantly touching him with a summer breeze or a branch of pink and white apple-blossom, and his mood becomes tenderness itself.

From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith

In what was just his second innings at this World Cup, Fakhar clubbed nine fours and four sixes as Sri Lanka's bowlers were flayed to all parts.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 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

Having opted to continue its lawsuit against two activist investor groups even after they withdrew a shareholder proposal the company management opposed, the giant oil company had gotten flayed by shareholder advocates for its bullying.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 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

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

Both the show, which employed different hosts over the years, and Carlson’s contract, were canceled not long after, by some accounts as a direct result of the flaying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 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

The chant of “We’ve got our Arsenal back” during the 5-1 flaying of Fulham summed up the season so far.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2018

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