Example sentences for: flayed

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • It is said that the artist’s agonizing self-portrait can be made out in the flayed skin of St. Bartholomew, to the right below Jesus.


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