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How to use flay in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word flay? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He would flay the flesh of unresurrected corpses and use the skin to make lampshades and chair covers and clothes.
Unfortunately, there's not enough violence here to fully rend and flay, just enough to bruise.
She isn't the marrying kind. If you knew her, she'd be nice to you till she got a good chance to flay you alive.
For instance, God did not tell Abraham to flay Isaac's skin and beat him mercilessly before sacrificing him.
He has the most charming voice in the world, and a silvery querulousness that can flay without drawing a single drop of blood.
Take your physical abilities and fitness to flay into account when planning your trip.
In a straight fight, says a recent poll, Mr Schröder would flay Mrs Merkel by 22 percentage points.
They said they would kill me, flay me and a lot of other things.
But Horace's nature was to laugh, not to flay, and his incidental butts were either insignificant or dead.
The creatures seemed upset and began to flay the skin on their backs with flails and whips they carried in holsters around the thick trunk of their neck.
I can't just go out and try to flay it to all parts.
Perhaps the opinion poll reflects a sense of fatalism: why flay the government when the opposition is not, for now, an alternative? How the BNP climbs back into contention will remain unclear for some time.
Olaf Haraldsson stood down, unable to put up any fight, as his nobles were against him for his tendency to flay their wives for sorcery.
The sadists who flay Jesus into hamburger, crowned him with thorns and harass his every step along the stations of the cross are a cretinous, drunken lot.
Examples from Classical Literature
I've a right to the money, and I'll flay him alive if I don't get it!
To flay off your skin, that I may make me a warm cap against the winter.
Your string will flay your arm ere you reach your up-shot this day.
It was he who would flay her for coquetting with the liberator.
He drew out his knife and ripping the otter up he began to flay him.
They strip them bare, flay them and cut away the flesh about the foot.
With a snarl of rage he turned and his long arms began to flay the air.
Vesalius himself offers a recipe for preparing bodies for dissection, and he tells us that Galen was reluctant himself to flay the apes he was about to anatomize.
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