Example sentences for: flayed

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

  • David Fincher's Seven thrust Walker's worldview into your viscera; I can still recall that film's gun battle, set in a long corridor, with its slingshot angles and bullets that seemed to explode beside your head, and the ghastly sight, both riveting and repellent, of a partially flayed, obese corpse, its milky white blubber framing intestines that looked like blue balloons.

  • He doesn't deserve to have his eyes and tongue sucked out, his brain dashed against the side of a tomb, or to be consumed by scarab beetles or flayed by locusts.

  • It has been tempting to see in Soutine's flayed forms a premonition of things to come.

  • 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.

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


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