Example sentences for: flayed

How can you use “flayed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Vanity Fair story, by rival investigative reporter Robert Sam Anson, flayed Hersh as a greedy journalistic thug who blackmails sources.

  • Some contributors to learned journals of his day frequently submitted their suggestions with a hesitation born of the fear of being flayed alive by the scholar in a contemptuous retort to be published in a later issue.

  • Burton--who was publicly flayed last Sunday for calling Clinton a "scumbag"--is flayed again, this time for releasing tapes of phone calls between Webster Hubbell, then incarcerated, and his wife.

  • In imitation of Rembrandt's flayed ox on display at the Louvre, Soutine hung a carcass of beef in his studio.

  • The rebellion was crushed, Dhaskaloyiánnis was flayed alive, and the event became the subject of a rousing epic poem.


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