From breastbone to manhood, he was flayed open.

From the neck down the skin had been flayed open and pulled back.

("The Virgin Mother," featuring a pregnant woman with her right side flayed open to show the fetus, is not for sale.)

She'd come here to open him and his heart wide, not to have her own heart flayed open.

Jake was pretty sure it had been flayed open, but it was hard to tell.

His lower neck and shoulder had been flayed open.

The whiskey seemed to burn his insides, as though they had already been flayed open by his feelings.

Bovai's backhand caught Corwin across the cheek flayed open by Richard's dagger and the man staggered back.

The woman's abdomen had been flayed open.