smite

“Curtis and I served together in the state Senate, he is your state senator. He is Republican. I am a Democrat. But when we team up in a bipartisan manner, we will smite evil.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2024

He can create countless jobs with a flick of his fingers, and smite al-Qaeda leaders with the lightning that flies from his open palms.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2022

Will he lose his head, or is the Green Knight’s bark worse than his smite?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

In the fable he likes to weave, Clemson will always be the lightly regarded college from the tiny town that rises up to smite the giants.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2020

What a surprise it must be to the Congolese to hear that brave David, who intended to smite the mighty Goliath, was actually jumping around pinching back plants, or worse.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Indecent exposure … Fantasy author Terry Goodkind has publicly castigated a pirate of his ebook Wizard hero Richard Rahl smites wrongdoers with his Sword of Truth.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2012

"He plays silly shots to get out and bowls lots of pies but inbetween times he smites big sixes and bowls unplayable deliveries."

From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2011

Pareja nods away a long high ball, but it drops out to the onrushing Russian, who smites the thing first time, dipping and fizzing past Dykan in the Spartak goal.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2010

Wake while our song smites the sky, For now, ere we leave you, We heartily give you Plastered in Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive

While I am lying on the grass, Thy loud note smites my ear!

From Wake-Robin by John Burroughs

But we say likewise, thrive, rise, smit, writ, abid, rid.

From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson

Next they are smit with wonder at the black shells of a wagon-load of live lobsters packed in rock-weed for the country-market.

From Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

By your example would Hilario mend, How would it grace the talents of my friend, Who, with the charms of his own genius smit, Conceives all virtues are compris'd in wit!

From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Edward Young

Yes, Lakshmaṇ, smit with love of me Thy brother's death thou fain wouldst see.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

Earl March look'd on his dying child, And smit with grief to view her— The youth, he cried, whom I exiled Shall be restored to woo her.

From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Francis Turner Palgrave

I’ve never touched a gun nor smote anything larger than a stink bug.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

Like the Boston Red Sox finally beating the Yankees in 2004, Buffalo smote their longtime nemesis in epic fashion.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2022

So went Robert Downey Jr. from the presence of Jimmy Fallon and smote the entire internet with an unwatchable video.

From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2018

In which arena rock was smote upside the backside by the punk movement.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2016

The back of my neck felt pinched, and my heart smote like a drum.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

“I was in awe of his intellect, dazzled by his wit, amazed by his fearlessness and spirit of adventure, besotted by his loving heart, and smitten by his beautiful blue eyes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Parkin encouraged people to watch the phenomenon, himself profoundly affected by seeing his first eclipse that had left him "smitten".

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Seconds after her aspirant boyfriend, Bear, snaps the One Wish Willow to make her fall in love with him, she walks back out of her house, a little sheepish and newly smitten.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Hyde, however, happened to notice him early in the season and was immediately smitten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

She and Morrow shared a few classes at school, and he was smitten with her almost immediately.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Mr. Harbour shines as the jolly, but surprisingly in shape, fat man smiting foes with a Christmas star, icicles and even a lethal candy cane.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

“Even in Akhenaten’s time, so much of her iconography was that of a male king, smiting enemies and doing things like that.”

From Scientific American ● Nov. 4, 2022

There is a kind of literary symmetry to Ms. Newman’s smiting her former boss with the very tools he taught her to use.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2018

Sure they’re great for smiting your enemies, but I bet they’re also perfect for quickly taking you to a tropical getaway.

From The Verge ● Jun. 28, 2016

Thence it turned, smiting the Vale of Anduin with hail and lightning, and casting its shadow upon Minas Tirith with threat of war.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien