Example Sentences

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Kass would have skinned the jail in late 19th century Arts and Crafts — soothing and restful to the eye — but as a prisoner, she was totally cut off from the open data stream.

From The Verge • Feb. 6, 2019

In Blue Nights Didion seems to have skinned herself; there is no trace of her trademark cool distance.

From Time • Nov. 8, 2011

But it would have skinned by without much trouble if the 25-day pilots' strike had not knocked it flat.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I can’t calm! He’s horrible! He ruined everything last night! You’d have skinned me alive if I’d behaved the way he did!”

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

From this dream he was rudely awakened every hour since he joined the family, and the wound his self-deceiving heart would fain have skinned over, was torn open.

From White Lies by Reade, Charles