Example Sentences

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A capable chef will flay and cook your catch to order.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2013

It at once removes the skin, and if rubbed in with vigour will flay a horse.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890 by Various

He will flay his poor soul for trifles as if they were the blackest crimes: In such moments the devil is very busy about the victim of gloom and despair.

From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)

Your string will flay your arm ere you reach your up-shot this day.

From Sir Nigel by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir