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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

Then they flay it—not filet, flay—meaning remove the skin.

From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2023

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

Looking to flay the left-armer through cover, his feet weren’t quite there and thus, nor his blade.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2021

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

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

He flays a backhand from left to right - and Nishikori somehow speeds on to it and spears a preposterous backhand winner down the line!

From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2015

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

He lote im aw dow, Witty motti-fy flow; A-flew-ty ho-lot-itty flays!

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

The Spun, a sports blog, flayed Plum for her “embarrassing lack of tax knowledge.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

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

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

Smoking in a raffish suit like a film noir baddie with a shock of red hair ready to torch the world, Noble’s Richard employs a dusky, ironic voice to flaying effect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

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

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

For your sins, Bryan Cranston is all but flaying the skin off his body, night after night at the Belasco Theater.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 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