Example Sentences

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In the old days, he would have flayed any minister daring to call for Bennite state investment to halt the sorry neglect of manufacturing.

From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2010

Its radio speakers have flayed U. S. participation in European affairs, have clamored for increased national defense.

From Time Magazine Archive

Had these Armours lived three or four more years, President Roosevelt would have flayed them personally.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here is the place where Apollo is said to have flayed Marsyas, when he had conquered him in the contest of skill.

From Anabasis by Dakyns, Henry Graham

Overwork must have flayed him to abnormal sensitiveness; it was one of the few times in his life when he had queried his eternal excellence; and he perceived the summer night, smelled the wet grass.

From Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair