It was braised flensing on a bed of flensed greens with a side of flensing in flense sauce.    From Wordnik.com.  [So… Much… Flensing!] Reference

Beach the lot of 'em, I say, and flense the big ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference

That had been Flenser's greatest gamble: to flense an entire nation-state.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

It was my job to flense all of the excess expenses from our household ….    From Wordnik.com.  [D-Day] Reference

What better way to understand the cosmos than to flense it, bleed it, and then build it back up again to spec.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jay Kirk: Museum Of Natural History And Carl Akeley's Jounrey To Build Its African Wing] Reference

I flense my shame, daub skin with art, take hammered will to mount the rock where now I brace and rattle chain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lucifer Cantos 4/13] Reference

Between them, the pair could gut and flense a fool's argument faster than a master butcher ever cleaned a chicken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water Sleeps]

I'm sure other people will flense Martin about the tangled mess of his various claims, but I'll step up for the old man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick Mamatas' Journal] Reference

Its spear lay out of easy reach, carefully stowed to one side next to the lethal bone boomerang men had dubbed a flying flense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metrognome and other Stories]

He was confused, and the strain of wondering when someone's flense was going to remove his head had begun to addle him slightly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metrognome and other Stories]

He was confused, and the strain of wondering when someone's flense was going to re'move his head had begun to addle him slightly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metrognome and Other Stories]

He swore at a man as he killed him, then drove the sword into a moustached, sun-tanned face and twisted the steel to flense the man's cheek away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Waterloo]

This surgical video is not for the faint of heart, but it is fascinating to watch that little, whirling blade flense away all that frayed tendon and bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: June 6, 2004 - June 12, 2004 Archives] Reference

But I am saying that expecting that mom would suddenly flense herself of a lifetime of bad habits just because she squeezed a kid out is a little unrealistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parenting] Reference

Two ten dollar wallscrolls and a twenty dollar NERV bag later, I decided I ought to flee from the room before I started trying to flense my own skin and mint it into a fleshy form of counterfeit money.    From Wordnik.com.  [bard Diary Entry] Reference

Some edged backwards, seeking the shelter of the trees, but the howitzers seemed to anticipate the move and the shrapnel blasts moved away from the chateau to flense the oaks in the wood of their leaves and branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Waterloo]

Her decision, to me, seems a little extreme, in that she decided to flense most descriptions in the first hundred pages that might have served to confuse readers not familiar with SF—which is to say, elements of the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finch: Finding a Way into the Novel] Reference

Every attempt I make at some small bit of happiness seems all too eager to flense its soft skin as soon as I've grown comfortable clutching it, matting its fur with its own blood, and peel off the kinder face to leer at me with a terrible, monstrous visage.    From Wordnik.com.  [bard Diary Entry] Reference

Watch, as I flense light into constituent colours with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

It took us two hours to kill our first whale, and four to flense it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter the Whaler] Reference

I scarcely believe that in the course of the day we met with a single piece of ice large enough to flense a seal upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference

Hebrews describes is called a machaira (mah-kai-ruh), a small knife precise enough to flense meat and sinews from a stew bone yet strong enough to sheer through a warrior's bronze helmet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

If this were a court of law, I’d find Matthew Barney had flense rea.    From Wordnik.com.  [So… Much… Flensing!] Reference

If the contents are anything like Random House’s summary, I expect D’Souza’s own fellow travelers to flense him like a heiffer dropped in the Amazon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sledgehammer and the Stiletto] Reference

Get past the delusional flattery and carping, flense the ego’s self-validating blather (positive and negative), and you should end up with a fairly objective view of your own work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genius in a Bottle] Reference

“And you also came to the conclusion that the pain of keeping your memories of her was too much to bear, and so sought our company’s services to flense her from your personal history.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persistence of Memory] Reference

I can understand this for all of the reasons above, but it’s really a vain attempt to abject the pulpy innards of the field, to flense the fat of formulation from the skeleton of the literary form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

It was flense dense.    From Wordnik.com.  [So… Much… Flensing!] Reference

Unlike spear and flense, it was not out of reach.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metrognome and other Stories]

"W'en we came alongside, we got out the tackles, and before beginning to flense (that means, ma'am, to strip off the blubber), we cut a hole in the top o 'the skull to get out the oil that was there; for you must know that the sperm-whale has got a sort of' ollow or big cavern in its.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Eric] Reference

"flense gut.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter the Whaler] Reference