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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

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

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

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

Political correctness is only one of the many cherished attitudes that Berg flays.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2022

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

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

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

“That is a dangerous doctrine, my dear child, especially for a woman to entertain; because custom rules us with an iron rod, and flays us alive if we contravene her decrees.”

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. Evans Wilson

The morning session, when Potts was flayed by Head and the catches went down was a throwback to the great England wheels-off Ashes horror shows.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 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

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

To see her curled up like that and skinned of all her armor was like seeing a heart flayed from a body, laid raw on a slab, and labeled Grief.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Khawaja had five when he nicked a flaying drive off Josh Tongue to second slip, where Brook shelled a tough chance but one he would expect to take.

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

I was 63 not out and batting beautifully, flaying Weston Creek fifths all over Rivett Oval.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2019

There will be no flaying here whilst I am Prince of Winterfell, Theon had responded, little dreaming how short his rule would prove.

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