cleansing

Example Sentences

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"The Offer," which confuses a baring-it-all origin story with a botched whale flensing, does not substantively change that.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2022

Over the next few hours Fred was in charge of carving up the whale, known as flensing.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2013

They dragged it back to the ship and began flensing it of its blubber.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2012

A gang of workmen, wielding long-handled flensing knives, sliced off the thick blubber in foot-wide strips.

From Time Magazine Archive

According to Hussey, the harbor had a “most appalling stench” from the dead whales moored in the harbor awaiting flensing.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong