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

Instead, the body language slumped more and more after every wide, no-ball and boundary that was flayed from their inconsistent bowling.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2023

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

He groaned and his hands flayed the air to ward off an invisible danger.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright