smite

Example Sentences

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“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

On it, we hear a 31-year-old woman impersonating her 19-year-old self reflecting on her 15-year-old self, and doing it all to smite the men who hoped to seize control of her songs.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2021

A number of religious texts speak of stones from heaven, which sometimes arrived at opportune moments to smite the enemies of the authors of those texts.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

The idea clearly was that the colonists, enraged by the putative assault, would rise up and smite Massasoit.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann