How To Use Flay In A Sentence

January, February, and March bring a great cold, and inhumane conditions of food and weather for the girls - long marches to church in the blistering cold wind, swollen and flayed fingers and feet, and chilblains on the hands.
Flaying the Hindu practice of smearing ash or saffron or sporting a 'tilak' on the forehead for yet another time, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi questioned the need for 'such things in a country which preached equality of all religions'. The Financial Express
Paquin calmly flays him with words; she makes it clear that this is not something she'll put up with and that he needs to get his head on straight and get on with it. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Romantics
There were even some claiming that a traitor's death was too good for her, that she should be executed in the old way: flayed alive and then thrown into the sea.
That turned out to be fanciful thinking as instead I found myself in a warm and cheerful place with assistants hard at work and a kettle on the boil, and if there was a funny smell it was, Polly assured me, just her lamb stew at lunch, not the waft of an odorous beast she'd flayed. Kisa Lala: Sculpting Corpses: A Conversation With Taxidermy Artist Polly Morgan

Yesterday, my solicitor entered my bed-chamber unsummoned, a presumptuous act for which I once would have had him flayed three times about the court-yard.
I can wind my horn, though I call not the blast either a recheate or a morte — I can cheer my dogs on the prey, and I can flay and quarter the animal when it is brought down, without using the newfangled jargon of curee, arbor, nombles, and all the babble of the fabulous Sir Ivanhoe
This painting within a painting shows a flayed figure whose blue body resembles an ecorche statuette used in academic life-study classes.
Flaying the Hindu practice of smearing ash or saffron or sporting a 'tilak' on the forehead for yet another time, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Wednesday questioned the need for "such things in a country which preached equality of all religions. NDTV News - Top Stories
A young man is suspended naked from a tree, prior to being flayed alive for daring to make music more harmonious than Apollo's.
There were not a few who saw things blackly in this respectand flayed the planlessness and heedlessness of the Reich's policies, andwell recognized their inner weakness and hollowness but these were onlyoutsiders in political life; the official government authorities passedby the observations of a Houston Stewart Chamberlain with the same indifferenceas still occurs today. Mein Kampf
Even if you've had to opportunity to try their signature Moules Fromage Bleu - a steaming pot of PEI mussels, bacon, shallots, spinach, and blue cheese with frites - watch as Food Network poster-boy Bobby Flay attempts to "throwdown" and pit his coconut milk, roasted green chilies and butter mussels, and roasted poblano fries against Chef Teddy Folkman's classic dish. DCist
He dragged on the reins and drew the buggy around, flaying the horse with his whip.
Chennai, November 5:: Flaying the Hindu practice of smearing ash or saffron or sporting a 'tilak' on the forehead for yet another time, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi questioned the need for 'such things in a country which preached equality of all religions'. Latest News Online - The Indian Express
I stripped and got under the shower and washed myself as clean as I could without flaying myself with the pumice. A DARKENING STAIN
They flayed the heretic, the back-talker, the smartmouth, and stretched his still-living flesh to crack and writhe in the hot African wind, till the hyena or the crocodile came along to finish him. The best way to understand government « Isegoria
They should flog him and flay him if they so desire.
He then delivered over the Jews to the earl of Cornwall, that those whom the one brother had flayed, the other might embowel, to make use of the words of the historian. [ The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III.
The rye straw would be scutched or flayed during the long winter nights, sheafed and left ready for the thatcher.
The now ex-king heard rumours of the impending showdown and when the group arrived had them arrested, ordered they be flayed alive and flogged to death.
She was well-known for flaying public officials in her daily column.
Elizabeth rewarded her ally with a honey-sweet glance that would have flayed the hide from a more sensitive STAGE FRIGHT
Practice: 1. Choose fresh and squashy Chinese flowering quince, flay, go nucleus, cut chunk account, reserve.
The grisly-minded Rawlins doctor, John Osborne, took over the corpse, cut off the top of the skull, and flayed large sections of skin from the body, skin which he ordered tanned and made into a pair of shoes. Bird Cloud
Don't you want to see their skin flayed from their backs and made into tasteful table lamps?
Pärt was looking at Anish Kapoor's immense sculpture ‘Marsyas’, named after the Greek satyr who was flayed alive after losing a musical contest with Apollo.
She shall be transfixed to your Temple doors and flayed alive!
Their hypocrisy, their cant and their lies are nailed to the wall and flayed with such devastating honesty and accuracy that one wonders how anyone could ever dare to be associated with their names again.
It seemed almost as if he was being flayed alive and his flesh seared away, layer by layer.
In some cases the corpse has been flayed to display the muscles and internal organs.
All had been slain cruelly, their eyes cut from their heads, their backs flayed with heavy whips until the ribs showed. Archive 2009-12-01
The enemy stood shocked as the heavy weapon flayed him open, and he fell to the ground.
They said they would kill me, flay me and a lot of other things.
If one bends over backwards to avoid such epithets as spend -, slip - or slidethrift, spillgood, or scattergood, one incurs hostile mutters of sparethrift or sparegood, scrapepelf or scrape-good, pinchfist or skinflint (also flay - or fleaflint), pinchgut VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
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Bowling closer to the batsman's body may have seen an intended cut fly to slip or chop the ball onto the stumps, but it was not to be, and the English attack was accordingly flayed.
In every Slave State there are laws affording, at least, some nominal protection to these unhappy beings; but, according to this resolution, slaves might be flayed alive in the streets of Washington, and no representative of the people could offer even a resolution for inquiry. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
Sherman declared that Cleveland's choice of southern advisors was a "reproach to the civilization of the age," and Joseph B. Foraker, speaking in an Ohio campaign, found that the people wished to hear Cleveland "flayed" and wanted plenty of "hot stuff. The United States Since the Civil War
I can flay and quarter the animal when it is brought down, without using the newfangled jargon of 'curee, arbor, nombles', and all the babble of the fabulous Sir Tristrem. Ivanhoe
The carronade was a pot of a gun, not a long, elegant and accurate cannon, but a squat cauldron to be charged with powder and metal scraps that flayed out like buckshot. Sharpe's Devil
I have seen small children in Jurassic Park (which scared me and I was in high school - c'mon, it was scary the first time!) and dozens of other child-inappropriate movies like the Passion of the Christ (come ON, Jesus ends up practially FLAYED, your kid does not need to see that, I don't care how holy you think it is!) Mommas, Don't Let You Children Go Out To See Watchmen
The man didn't have time to scream as the flesh was flayed from his body by the hundreds of razor sharp blades.
Each time it came, with its soft beauty, its languor of sweetness -- like a word reclining -- it flayed her soul alive, and showed her red, raw bareness. The Woman with the Fan
And this contrariety may be assoiled in this manner, that some say that he was crucified and was taken down ere he died, and for to have greater torment he was flayed and at the last beheaded. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
They seem insignificant among the bodies burnt to charcoal, or flayed to muscle and skin, half covered in rags, scenes of a terrible and continuing horror.
Bound in the flayed skin of 100 saints and penned with the blood of virgins, this sinister and forbidden occult text is an item of incredible power.
His legs flayed about still as he burst out laughing, giggling like a small child.
He was so angry he nearly flayed his horse alive.
At the end of this film the character whom you have been following, identifying with, gets brutally and horribly tortured and has his skin flayed off and his eyes pulled out. Exclusive: Wanted's Mark Millar Settles the Score for Fans « FirstShowing.net
Nearly every one of Soutine's paintings signals the end of the world; and he flays and eviscerates his subjects—as if unleashing the writhing bowels of hell. Constructivist Criticism Laid Bare
You cannot flay the same ox twice.
I'll be flayed alive when she finds out!
Elizabeth rewarded her ally with a honey-sweet glance that would have flayed the hide from a more sensitive STAGE FRIGHT
It is a medieval jacquerie - the mob is looking for castles to burn, arrogant noblemen and corrupt clergy to flay. Times, Sunday Times
He depicts the human condition by flaying his subjects and smearing them over unprimed canvas. Times, Sunday Times
He was flayed and his skin mounted on the door as a warning.
On he goes, pausing to read his poems by pictures of the screaming faces of The Skinned Man, flayed alive as a sacrifice by Aztec priests, and a skull from The Day of the Dead.
It's yet another reason why they all should be crucified and flayed alive.
Merciless, cruel, and unforgiving," wrote Angela Carter a more obvious admirer in her 1982 preface to this edition: "Stead has a rare capacity to flay the reader's sensibilities. The Man Who Loved Children – review
Tritt jammed his thick hand into Logan's left pocket and flayed it about.
He was going to flay that stranger with every trick known to the law.
There's a swoopy, somewhat incongruous Frank Gehry building in Millennium Park in Chicago," says a famous architecture critic who wishes to remain nameless for fear of being perceived as a revolting, disgusting philistine who ought to be hanged, drawn, quartered and then shot, but only after being blinded and flayed alive. An Architect's Blueprint for Overexposure
And they lashed me with whips that flay the skin with each stroke. Fire The Sky
Being mathematicians, they elected to name their firstborn after someone called Hypatia of Alexandria, a Neoplatonist philosopher who met a sticky end when, presumably having pissed off the wrong people the Antiplatonists? she was stripped naked and flayed with oyster shells before being burned alive. Confetti Confidential
His implication is that therefore they deserved to be mistreated - starved, beaten, flayed alive - but the key point of those who object to torture is that no-one deserves to be treated like that.
There he was condemned to death by the king, and before being beheaded he was flayed alive.
Had the child before her been real, she would have flayed the skin from her bones with a thousand hungry spiders.
Will not some serious thoughts mingle with thy melilot, and tear off the callus of thy mind, as that may flay the leather from thy back, and as thy epispastics may strip the parchment from thy plotting head? Clarissa Harlowe
I have seen small children in Jurassic Park (which scared me and I was in high school - c'mon, it was scary the first time!) and dozens of other child-inappropriate movies like the Passion of the Christ (come ON, Jesus ends up practially FLAYED, your kid does not need to see that, I don't care how holy you think it is!) Mommas, Don't Let You Children Go Out To See Watchmen
Then from the starving cagework city a horde of jerkined dwarfs, my people, with flayers’ knives, running, scaling, hacking in green blubbery whalemeat. Ulysses
Artaud's solid and daunting denials of lies and politics, as in the opening of Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu To Have Done with the Judgment of God, and his horrific explorations, like flaying of the psyche and Manichean screams were there to be read, heard, and imagined. Anis Shivani: Exclusive: Beat Poet Michael McClure On Jim Morrison, The Doors, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac
Looks like someone's cosy old granny and has a tongue that would flay a kangaroo. Rat Race
Her clothes were flayed, her exposed skin covered by hundreds of small, ripping bites.
‘And you'd find out what it's like to be flayed alive,’ I responded with an unnatural calm.
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.
If this is something he has started doing because he is captain (remember, he was flayed in the 2003 World Cup for doing it), then it is a very curious development.
I was mad enough at Helena to let him rage, which was rather mean, because I could see Ric’s every accusing word flayed the foster-mother inside the scientist. Silver Zombie
Some of them had their skins flayed off them and their flesh was flung to the dogs.
I can wind my horn, though I call not the blast either a recheate or a morte -- - I can cheer my dogs on the prey, and I can flay and quarter the animal when it is brought down, without using the newfangled jargon of curee, arbor, nombles, and all the babble of the fabulous Sir Tristrem. Ivanhoe. A Romance
Given the choice between death, amputation or a damn good beating, I would probably also elect to have the skin flayed off my back by a burly, sadistic mullah. Sky News, Choudhary and Sharia Law
Death squads are operating with official sanction and running their own torture centres where detainees have their skin flayed from their bones.
She was well-known for flaying public officials in her daily column.
Unfortunately, there's not enough violence here to fully rend and flay, just enough to bruise.
It was the flayed hide to a bull, winging on the tide out to sea.
His carcass was also flayed, the skin torn into pieces and sold as souvenirs.
Where I part company with many of the American critics who have flayed the film, is in their assumption that this is a thriller whose subject is murder, and which fails to deliver suspense before the killer is unmasked.
Flaying the Hindu practice of smearing ash or saffron or sporting a 'tilak' on the forehead for yet another time, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi questioned the need for 'such things in a country which preached equality of all religions' … The DMK chief had made similar remarks on certain other Hindu customs earlier and described Hindus as 'robbers'. Seriously Sandeep
For instance, God did not tell Abraham to flay Isaac's skin and beat him mercilessly before sacrificing him.
And being given not merely to fleece but utterly to flay men, they no sooner espy a foreign merchant in the city, than they find out from the book of the dogana how much he has there and what he is good for; and then by caressing and amorous looks and gestures, and words of honeyed sweetness, they strive to entice and allure the merchant to their love, and not seldom have they succeeded, and wrested from him great part or the whole of his merchandise; and of some they have gotten goods and ship and flesh and bones, so delightsomely have they known how to ply the shears. The Decameron, Volume II
They should flog him and flay him if they so desire.
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He appealed to his son's sensitiveness, and assured him that he would be "flayed" unless he wrapped himself in the hide of a rhinoceros. The Life of John Ruskin
You can celebrate the victory today with a waffle on 46th btw. 5+6th (and saying “Bobby Flay” gets you a free dinge.) Wafels & Dinges on Throwdown With Bobby Flay (Video) | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
If I had the power, I would have every single one of these inhuman monsters responsible for this travesty flayed alive.
It shows a man being flayed alive - slowly, methodically and with increasing savagery.
And when he later threatens the recalcitrant Goneril that her sister will "with her nails flay thy wolfish visage", he brandishes his own vulpine claw in her face. King Lear – review
I call not the blast either a _recheate_ or a _morte_ --- I can cheer my dogs on the prey, and I can flay and quarter the animal when it is brought down, without using the newfangled jargon of _curee, arbor, nombles_, and all the babble of the fabulous Sir Tristrem. '' Ivanhoe
On a recently aired episode, after instructing a volunteer to julienne some vegetables, Flay jeers at her inferior knife-work, inciting the rest of the room to laugh at her expense.
The flayed body immediately raises the context of anatomical study.
He was so angry he nearly flayed his horse alive.
However, given the sculptural effect Leonardo sought to produce in these finished drawings, one wonders to what extent he may have copied from wax or plaster models of flayed limbs.
I stripped and got under the shower and washed myself as clean as I could without flaying myself with the pumice. A DARKENING STAIN
Could a professional game critic ever make the transition to game designer without having the games he/she produces flayed alive by the gaming press?
Your bizarre victory dance after being flayed by glamor is just sad and pitiful Think Progress » Fox ‘News’ cheerleads for Tea Party protesters.
Acerbus ripped him apart, flaying his skin and then breaking his bones.
It would be grossly unfair to apply the name brigand to the Mainotes and similar clans, who had to choose between being flayed by the Turks or living by the sword under their own law. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
You cannot flay the same ox twice.
We met the Aussie epicure in the kitchen at NYC's Bar Americain — on loan for the morning from Stone's buddy and fellow gastronome Bobby Flay — for a heaping helping of flapjacks with a side of straight talk. Cooking With Curtis Stone
Once more I went forward to sacrifice her, but she again lowed aloud upon which in ruth I refrained and commanded the herdsman to slay her and flay her. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Employees who do not comply will be flayed alive and slowly chopped into little pieces.
Arms flaying, back arched, both legs in a triple salchow and any number of rolls once he hits the turf. The Sun
Mr. Flay, who buys two or three horses a year, each for $800,000 or more, says his business plan calls for buying more expensive fillies that are "proven entities" and can generate income for breeding if they don't win races. Bargain Hunters Go Off to the Races
He was so angry he nearly flayed his horse alive.
CHENNAI: Flaying the Hindu practice of smearing ash or saffron or sporting a 'tilak' on the forehead for yet another time, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Wednesday questioned the need for "such things in a country which preached equality of all religions. The Times of India
One held him in a firm grasp, while the guards watched from the near; and Viro faced the butte, his back naked, as the woman flayed him again and again with a horse-whip.
Nowhere in the flayed skin of Grünewald is there a trace of the Jesus who looked at Pilate through his one good eye and informed the Roman procurator that he would have no power were it not given from above.
He has lifted figures directly from Masaccio, and his works suggest Arcimboldo 's phantasmagorical heads and the flayed bodies of Andreas Vesalius' s 16th-century tome on human anatomy. Prospecting Some Personal Landscapes
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And when he later threatens the recalcitrant Goneril that her sister will "with her nails flay thy wolfish visage", he brandishes his own vulpine claw in her face. King Lear – review
The witch of this city hall scandal was being flayed alive.
The skin and eyes look like they've been flayed off a living subject.
Take a Saracen, young and fat; In haste let the thief be slain, Opened, and his skin off flayn; And sodden full hastily, With powder and with spicery, And with saffron of good colour. The Talisman
How about inviting the Food Network's Bobby Flay into town for a "throwdown" challenge with local chefs? MNspeak.com
There he was condemned to death by the king, and before being beheaded he was flayed alive.
The Harvard Library owns a seventeenth-century English volume bearing the inscription The bynding of this booke is all that remains of my deare friende Jonas Wright, who was flayed alive by the Wavuma on the Fourth Day of August, 1632. The Lampshade
A few stinging shots flayed part of the hull, sending both Serge and Allicia tumbling around as the ship arched threateningly, before righting itself.
A charmer with glinty umber eyes and a disarming crescent grin, his acceptance was doled out in niblets, treats passed to dogs standing stiff before the judges, trained to gladly suffer the verbal public flayings endured in between. 1997: What I Wanted
She was well-known for flaying public officials in her daily column.
Some might argue that a man being impaled, flayed alive and left to bake in the desert could hardly be categorized as wholesomely edifying entertainment.
This horrible spectacle included having his skin flayed with iron combs.
They had used their newly-designed, precise instruments of torture to flay away skin, then the drugs to rebuild it into this monstrosity, this hideous pattern of nerveless layers.
A sharp blade brandished, he said I'm going to flay you for food. Migraine Dreams
The flayed skin in The Last Judgment has the status of a mask; an entire body, putatively that of the author, has been turned into a larva, an empty and inanimate persona void of inspiriting energy.
The right again!" sang out the big brute, I obeying without wincing after the first stroke; and so he went on, flaying my poor hands until he had given me six "pandies," as the boys called the infliction, on each, by which time both of my palms were as raw as a piece of ordinary beefsteak, and, I'm certain, far more tender. On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story
No man in England durst say so much — I would flay him, carbonado him! The Adventures of Roderick Random
He evoked the high pulpit with the red plush pillow for the Bible, the stiff pews, the black contribution purses attached to long poles, “the wheezy melodeon in the gallery-front” and the “old maid behind it in severe simplicity of dress,” the choir that raved and roared around its “victim” the hymn, “& pulled & hauled & flayed it.” Mark Twain

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