flayed
Example Sentences
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One of his recurring subjects was meat, from flayed rabbits to rayfish, with odorous side effects.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Its common name is weeping fig, and in these flayed skins the lamentation resonates.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2024
The students plastered Dean Martinez’s classroom last week with flyers saying that the protesters were exercising their First Amendment right to engage in “counter-speech,” an argument flayed by Judge Duncan.
From Washington Times • Mar. 24, 2023
The composition in the group image evokes shipwrecks, but more than anything, the sailors look like a whaling crew, pulling at the flayed blubber of their giant prey.
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2023
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
