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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

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

But if there is anyone out there today blessed with Playeresque moxie, it’s Spieth, whose wild flay on 13 at Birkdale would have driven most to salt tears.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2017

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

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

At Old Trafford, Andy Carroll flicks an Antonio cross into the path of Mauro Zarate, who flays the ball wide from six yards out!

From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 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

“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

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

In Anderson's next over, Jaiswal flayed three consecutive sixes.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 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

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

Get it wrong, admit the merest uncertainty, alter your story one iota, and in a few months’ time a smooth-talking lawyer will be flaying you to ribbons in front of an FA disciplinary panel.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2021

Classify it however you like; it is a shockingly powerful work of art, as funny as it is flaying.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2020

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